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I could feel this in myself. I want Biden to be president, but my experiences with the left this last year still gave me a little shot of joy every time Trump did well

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Alex Tabarrok

@ATabarrok

Nov 4, 2020

My takeaway is that a large number of people HATE the cultural left (not the econ left) and are willing to put up with almost anything, including incompetence, chaos, corruption and bad policy, to signal their views loud and clear.

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"Trump personality/Bernie policies FTW" I believe these people are the ones who refer to themselves as the "dirtbag Left".

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It feels like they hate me. The right feels like it hates what I do, but the left feels like they hate *me*. I've been brigaded by both right and left many times; the right when I violate a specific cultural value they have, the left for any damm thing

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This is a bit of a hyperbole. But to be more specific, if I support abortion, the right hate me. If i ask a question that so much as smells faintly of me maybe doubting the narratives around race, the left tells me to go kill myself

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I don't know anything about you "maybe doubting the narratives around race" but I think that it's relevant that "I'm just asking questions" is something that a lot of bigots say, so it might trigger a reaction in people who have *their own* scars.

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Sure, but I'm clearly not a bigot if they just checked briefly, but they are universally fully uninterested in actually checking to see if they're right, and actively ignore any evidence I give to the contrary.

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Like last time I got brigaded it was because I suggested that the negative reaction to catcalls was racist because black men predominantly catcall. I personally like being catcalled. Black women agreed with me that black men catcall more. Yet the response was absolutely furious.

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Again, I can't speak for anyone else. Maybe the question or the framing seemed like evidence to support their assumption about you. Maybe theyre just particularly shitty ppl. If we can agree that Trump doing well represents bad policy, joy at his success is a weird flex