Random obsv: conservatives tend to express a kind of charity and magnanimity to whomever enters their personal orbit but then become increasingly cynical/distrustful as the object of their politics grows increasingly distant and abstract...
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From the outside this spectrum of good-will-> suspicion will reasonably appear to have a racial cast since the people in a given person’s orbit will tend to be racially homogenous, but really the functional variables aren’t race per se but the local/known v. the distant/unknown..
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Something like the inverse of Sailer’s description of liberals as having “leapfrogging loyalties”
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But then it’s also why charges against cons as being these callous, purely selfish, zero-sum minded social Darwinists don’t really stick. I don’t know any conservatives who sit around wondering if they’re bad people for not supporting some abstract refugee cause eg...
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I was just thinking about this after reading that long WaPo profile about the Honduran asylum seeking family
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