Semi-informed hot take: The worst Culture War contexts aren't collision zones between incompatible values. Mostly, they're abstract places where the perceived dichotomous opinions have near-indistinguishable contingent payoffs but near-separable trait-contingent boundaries.
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Replying to @generativist
The most fractious debates are over inconsequential matters that accommodate knee-jerk polarization? This makes sense. Trivial issues allow for pure signaling. If the issue were substantive, you might support one side or the other for policy reasons, and that muddies things.
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Replying to @kareem_carr
Yes. And it's even worse than that because in these contexts, experience leads to habituation. By trial and error, people discover which contexts are mutually rewarding in their stereotypical confirmations. So, they become stable and chronically salient...collision spaces.
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Replying to @generativist @kareem_carr
(Not necessarily consciously, of course. Like, I know I do the same thing sometimes -- and I'm not always aware of it.)
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Replying to @generativist
I'm not very political, mostly because this isn't my country and I can't vote. So that makes my life easier.
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Replying to @kareem_carr @generativist
I have many times said something like, "I'm sure it could work either way, but you guys ought to pick one!". Followed by crickets.
For instance, Japan has low immigration. Lovely country. Canada has high immigration. Also lovely.
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Anecdotally, I think that's evidence of the proposed process. You haven't been here long enough for chronic exposure to afford you the automatic & distorting perceptions.
Alt hypothesis: You're a statistician, thus are somewhat robust to that type of error.
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