Sometimes someone will say: "I explicitly do not support X. I do support some things related to X", and then the response is "That guy's an X supporter!" I've seen this a lot with discussions around racism/trump, on both sides of the political spectrum. What's going on under...
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If supporting X is socially frowned upon then some people who support X will signal their full support by coded support for X-adjacent things. Most people will take their word that they don't support X but some are wise to this tactic. Of course it's hard to tell from genuine
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It's more of a communication thing in certain communities to spot cryptofascists and the like. Tend to get spillover
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In re Trump, it's a moral panic.
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It's a quick way to "win" an argument. Just say the one you disagree with supports something you think might get them in trouble or invalidate them
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This is a damn good question. Seems related to attribution theory and in particular correspondent inference theory but those apply to the observer and not the actual target who is singling. But mix that with diversity research on group identification and may get somewhere.
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Also identity management theory and Caudini's unity principle of persuasion (new 7th principle of persuasion) may also give light to this. Really interesting question though I would love to see answered.
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Is this a similar sort of thing to a racist dog whistle?
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I suspect that most of this is fallacious "magical thinking" on the part of the listener, imagining that they know what the speaker secretly believes despite or because of what the speaker actually says.
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I liked *Public Truths, Private Lies* and *Elephant in the Brain* on this sort of thing. I don't recall anything on personality types in particular.
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When people really hate something, they think it is not enough to not support it... if you don't say out loud how much you hate it, you aren't moral enough
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and it's pretty easy to tell your ideological tribe to disapprove of someone just saying "this person supports that"
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