sure, they *know* that X is what Y people are like and it's annoying that you're trying to tell them otherwise
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whereas obviously some B people do A but it'd be ridiculous to generalize that to all B people
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Replying to @ColumPaget @St_Rev
sure. that isn't a conspiracy. it's just people having categories of epistemic certainty.
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Replying to @chaosprime @St_Rev
I didn't say it was a conspiracy. I said it was a human need. I think (most) ppl need someone to hate.
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Replying to @ColumPaget @St_Rev
nah, most ppl need something to belong to. the thing they belong to may need hate to sustain cohesion.
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but there are well-documented alternatives for the purpose so hate may just be pathetic egregoric laziness.
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Replying to @chaosprime @St_Rev
I suspect that alternatives are recent inventions, where as unity-through-hate-of-outgroup is maybe older than language
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Replying to @ColumPaget @St_Rev
Torah has a lot of mileage on it and it deploys at least six cohesion drivers, outgroup hate not prominent among them
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Replying to @chaosprime
hmm, much of what's in the Torah is also in the old testament, right?
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same thing except for the crappy translation jobs
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