But if one wants to see and hear real, thoughtful conservatism one has to go out of one's way to activist seek it out. Haidt pointedly...
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...admits that he never encountered conservative thought until his mid forties, and he was an Ivy League educated PhD in psychology.
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According to the prevailing liberal culture, conservatives are more likely to be misogynists by nature, and racist, and closed minded.
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And so in practically any conversation any conservative ever has with a liberal, the conservative is losing before the convo even starts.
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And the conservative first has to "prove" to the liberal that he's NOT those things, before any sort of fair conversation can begin.
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The things Haidt describes here about social science actually happen everywhere all the time.http://heterodoxacademy.org/2015/09/14/bbs-paper-on-lack-of-political-diversity/ …
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Liberal values and sensibilities and interpretations are embedded in the language and the thinking, hiding in plain sight.
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They don't seem that liberal to me. Also, you just elected Trump so possibly universities & liberal media aren't the whole of America.
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You're right they're not the whole of America. Did you read the Forgotten Class and Streetcorner Conservative articles I linked to?
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No. I'm getting hundreds of tweets.
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