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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The only rule I hold on to tight is that people are almost never binary in their behaviour. If they were my experiments would work better.
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I don't think I claimed that at all though?
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The whole point of my subthread was about how people are very different to what people think. So kind of the opposite of simplifying to "all
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academics are this way or that way".
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