More evidence (
) that our erroneous political beliefs are not driven by us being stupid or bad information processors.
But by incentives to believe one thing or another. https://twitter.com/krassenstein/status/997119799485399040 …
Young earth creationism, virgin birth, four armed deities etc. are classical examples. A new one might be 'cultural appropriation', for instance.
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Yeah just not sure those are selected *because* they make it harder to be an outgroup member. Eg sjw might just be good way to signal care bout minorities (even if not actually useful to minorities). 1/2
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That might be a good example: sjw cares about 'structural oppression' in a way that ignores actual material circumstances. For instance, most homeless people are not a concern because they are male, hence privileged. That would be counterintuitive to a run-of-the-mill leftist.
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