I just took a look at some of the incidents listed on the ADL H.E.A.T. map and found that, for example, <35% of the incidents listed as "extremist murders by white supremacists" in 2009 plausibly looked like hate crimes. Most of the murders for that year were instances of --
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white supremacists murdering people during the course of a robbery, murdering other white people, including murdering other white supremacists. Wish someone would pay me for journalism, bc I'd research the hell out of this. tl;dr the ADL H.E.A.T. map is misleading at BEST
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I don't know exactly what 'motivated reasoning' means since literally all acts of volition are motivated but this is probably where one of the LW-cordycepted crew would say 'motivated reasoning' like the thought-killing mantra it is
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for reals tho i don't know what people mean when they say something is 'motivated reasoning' but every time it is said the person saying it seems to think it's some sort of masterstroke
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oh weird, not even like... “x-motivated reasoning”? I have no idea what that’s meant to mean but mercifully haven’t encountered these people
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you haven't engaged with the kind of cleverdumbs that seem to haunt
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ftr i am not averse to denigrating reasoning as motivated and what i mean by motivated reasoning is that your motivation was to justify the bullshit you walked into the room with rather than figure out what's going on
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i'm less likely to deploy it with a "you triggered my trap card" kind of vibe than some though
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