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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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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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So many well-meaning folks fall for this and end up in quixotic, hours-long debates with people who were never arguing in good faith.
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& by engaging with them this way, ppl reinforce the identity Nazis try to cultivate: that they're reasonable folks amenable to discourse.
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Reminds me of the elephant/rider metaphor from Jonathan Haidt's 'The Righteous Mind'. Moral intuitions comes first, reasoning second.
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You can't use reason to remove that which reason did not put there in the first place.
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Interesting to see you admitting this now. I feel like some of us were telling you this months ago when you were all ~classical liberal~
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Wisdom and truth. Much respect
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Problem is, I, or even most people, don't know how to deal with that. How do you convince a person who's judgement isn't based in reason?
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But you can sometimes experience people out of bigotry. Through meeting/talking going through experiences with other people views can shift
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Not true,
@OmniDestiny reasoned me out of the sceptic community -
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