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 …
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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Yeah I just don’t think such arguments (if they are given) would be given *because* other people would find them *more* unreasonable than sjw’s would. Rather I think such an argument *might* be given *because* it is a good way to signal in the know bout dogma re oppression.
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(Obv this depends on the precise argument given. And also I think various aspects of sjw rhetoric/stances could be driven by slightly different motives. And not 100% sure. But signaling in the know re dogma or history, and signaling sympathetic to minorities, come to mind.)
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