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I feel much less threatened when I get ratio'd by conservative people than when I do by progressives. I blocked almost nobody this last ratio, whereas time before that I blocked everyone. I'm not totally sure why; I think I imagine right-leaning people have less power to hurt me?

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Because you feel contempt for the dumb conservatives (and the intellectual ones aren't the ones who attack you) but deep down in your heart you still respect progressives and feel some pain when they disapprove of you?

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Maybe? Or something closer to the frame that the progressives feel closer to 'my people' culturally, and the conservatives are 'farther away'. There's something in here that feels distinctly like threat. I don't think I feel conservative-specific contempt at a cursory glance

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I'll make a guess: when you were ~15-20y old, your viewpoint was roughly "the Blue Tribe is right and just and is the wave of the future, except maybe with the one flaw of not valuing free markets enough, but Reds are truly backward savages" Am I close?

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(basically I am guessing you're feeling symptoms that mirror my own because part of your intellectual upbringing mirrors my own)

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Do you also feel more threatened when lefties yell at you vs conservatives?

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Absolutely.

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