It's amazing how many people think of themselves as excommunicated from their moral/political/intellectual community.
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I've seen so many arguments over whether 'the atheist movement' is now dominated by Islamophilic SJWs or Islamophobic alt-right.
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This came abt coz western atheists critical of religion & collectivized were more likely to be liberal & then liberals split over Islam.
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Whether to criticise illiberal ideas consistently or to prioritise supporting minority groups even if that meant you didn't do that.
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And for many, this issue became polarising with people taking more extreme views on it in reaction to each other.
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Until there genuinely were Islamophilic SJW atheists & anti-Muslim alt-right atheists who were once consistent liberal atheists,
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Although it remains far more common to accuse people of being either when they are in fact neither but just differ slightly on approach.
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Which really goes to show why 'atheist' is not really an identity & it's probably best not to make it one. Just 1 position on one thing.
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Moral communities cannot form around this & they're really always about secularism, liberalism, rationalism, human rights - positive things.
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Yep, as you guessed there is a name: group polarisation. See Cass Sunstein's work.
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What sunstein found was that groups actively diverge from each other and/or the mainstream and become more extreme in their ideas/views.
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Oh yes, I knew about this. Will be publishing something on it in a couple of days. But that perception of the other side as big/mainstream?
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Look forward to it. On differential size perception, I haven't noticed that and I can't recall a name.
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Perhaps it's based on loss aversion: threats and losses loom larger than opportunities or gains?
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Yes, maybe! And maybe evolution has favoured people who see a threat as greater than it is rather than lesser or accurately?
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The Spiral of Silence
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Then, when people are scared of isolation because lines are getting blurred, reaffirm the lines and aim to exist within them. Panopticism...
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...thrives in online platforms because everything you say is documented. You gotta shout louder with friends or be seen as weak/complicit
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"feeling sorry for yourself" ?
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