Yeah that was more my hunch and personal experience too.
I disagree because there's a big difference between a blip and the view being central to their worldview.
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The examples I listed are cases where the views were absolutely central to their political views, making the views not a "oops" but a strong
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part of their identity.
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We are talking about if academics are left wing or not, but these views, if held onto strongly, are not left wing views. Ergo academics who
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hold these views as core to their politics are not descriptively left wing even if they self-describe as such.
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This also constitutes a good argument as so why left vs right is not the best way to talk about this.
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Lemme give you an example, I was brought up to hate Turks. All of my schooling was about that. Pure hatred — seeing them as subhuman.
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I abandoned that view. Why? Because it's wrong in my opinion, but also because it's central to my worldview not to hate Turks. So when I
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discovered that Turks are humans and that my whole generation had been conditioned to hate them for propaganda reasons, I stopped hating.
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The examples, I listed are above are cases where the person was often confronted with the opportunity to abandon that belief, and they opted
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