In fact, I probably know as many with questionable and extreme right wing views in certain areas than I do ones without these views.
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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left wing views. The Left and the left have within them disgusting views, ranging from TERFs to tankies. We need to clean our house.
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