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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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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Interesting. What do you feel is the (ugh) latent cause? Openness? Perspective taking? Not so much personality/individual but social norms?
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I don't know what causes ppl to be a way over another, that's like the whole of sociology. I just know that conservatism is right wing.
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