So many group psychology tricks laid bare in one short post. For context this is a reply to a complaint about the now ubiquitous conspicuously performative live sign language pantomime for all statements by public officials. Mini threadhttps://twitter.com/Ndpndnt_Citizen/status/1333942832625819654 …
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First is the variation on the celebration parallax - when *you* object, it's just doing his job. Later this is forgotten when *we* celebrate how "in your face" this is and why that's a victory. Contains an element of gaslighting - "you're crazy for thinking we think that"
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Next, the salami slice - "oh, it's just this tiny thing, you can't fight *everything*" - variation on the NR "conservative case for <anything>". Shouldn't ever fight any particular thing and you end up giving away everything in the long run.
5:39 PM - 1 Dec 2020
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