several years ago @bryan_caplan wrote a piece on missing moods that contributed to this framing. its worth reading and examining your own sentiments wrt policy
caplans model is applied to specific policies, but in this thread I mean to set those asidehttps://www.econlib.org/archives/2016/01/the_invisible_t.html …
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this is partly because meme ideologies frequently dont even bother with real policies. theyre nearly pure status struggles, which is kind of beautiful in a hansonian politics is not about policy sense all of the pretense is stripped away
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what is the policy that proposes shitting on random trans women minding their own business because they have some masculine facial feature? what is the policy that proposes harassing random white service workers and uploading film to twitter?
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this is pure hansonian politics of being cruel to an outgroup and it is the shared praxis of the woke and the redpilled and in my heart of hearts it is this dehumanization that i object to rather than any Evidence or Argument or Theory
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to everyone in the replies insisting that their affiliated ideology is brimming with kindness actually i invite you to say some unironically nice things about the outgroup just post em here :)
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dude I know you're a lib, it's ok I accept you as you are
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Not quite legible
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"being friends with people shouldn't be torture"
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I typed and deleted like three good rejoinders (all too mean to various people)
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pretty sure this demonstrates your humanity! (I'd still like to see the rejoinders..)
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