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In order to detect bigotry you have to understand that it's fundamentally irrational. If you expect it to make sense, you'll miss it.
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It's not enough to listen literally to what people say. You have to pick up the feelings behind it.
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"Rationalist skeptics" are especially bad at noticing bigotry because they disdain emotional intelligence. They read language as logical propositions. They're blind to subtext, connotation, innuendo.
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This works with good-faith rational debate, but not with bigotry. "Reason" and "logic" are only reflections on the surface of bigotry. Rationalists look into the lake and think they're gazing at clouds.
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A corollary of this is you can't reason someone out of bigotry. Facts and arguments are not relevant. Any argument you come up with looks like "not an argument" to them, because their position—their emotional position—is not rooted in rationality to begin with.
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Exactly. Bigots aren't bigoted because of what they believe. They believe what they do because their bigotry demands them to.
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Precisely!
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Was just explaining this to someone, using Sartre's arguments in 'Anti-Semite & Jew'. Emotion first, logic later is the standard.
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The thing that worries me a bit is that trying to calculate someone's emotional rationale can sometimes lead to mislabeling people alt-right
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Certainly explains literally everything about Jordan B Peterson.
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The phrase "you know what I mean" is useful for saving yourself from the rabbit hole of precise definitions
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