E.g., I know scientists, not few at all, who think colonialism was great, deny genocide happened, and think ethnonationalism is a good idea.
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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that they will discard a view merely because it is a blip. Maybe I’m wrong. It does feel like I’m dichotomising, which feels wrong.
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Oh, I don't either. I don't think I said they do, but I will emphasise that it's very tough. My point is perhaps more fine than that though.
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I literally see blip-abandonment as a left wing thing, and conservation of blips as a right wing thing. I think everybody does.
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This is why I class those who maintain their blips and indeed like you say double down on them as not actually as left wing as they think.
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I wary of pulling a No True Scotsman so I just want to underline I am dissociating between self-describing as left wing and actually holding
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