According to the study, the angry white people are mostly in the activist left.It's an interesting study
I'm not sure they left likes anything.
According to the study, the angry white people are mostly in the activist left.
Well, read the study. Figure out which group best represents your thinking. So what does that make you?Which makes us what? Well armed pacifists?
The piece is somewhat interesting, and I got sucked into skimming it over pretty good. The underlying study seems to rely heavily on binary, "Black/White" questions for dividing people up into groups. Taken at face-value, I'm struck by how the far-left believes society is so rigged that your success in life is mostly outside your control. That is a profoundly outside-the-mainstream belief, even by modern standards.
Of course, the study recites the increasingly-tired canard about how conservatives "fear" the world, and feel it is unsafe. There is some support for this, however the authors seem to miss the similar mindset on the left. Both Far-left and far-right people posit the existence of a "malevolent universe," it seems to me they just attribute the source of that danger differently. Left-wingers believe the world is safe but not just; Right-wingers believe it's just but not safe.
Overall though, I read this study and just cannot see myself in it. I don't see what it solves or explains, that we didn't already know.
Reading through it now. It's amusing how they classify anyone right of center as 'fringe', while including anyone less radical than Antifa as a part of the 'moderate majority'.
"Hidden Tribes" Mmmmmm....
I wonder if Elizabeth Warren will get her own chapter?
It's from Stephen Hawkins so it must be true...... Hawking ....Hawkins ....Hawking...... Uh Oh.
Hmmm. Only one category seems to have a racial descriptor - but I'm sure its just a Freudian Slip and not an indication of bias or anything
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It's from Stephen Hawkins so it must be true...... Hawking ....Hawkins ....Hawking...... Uh Oh.
One dynamic that I've not seen explored in detail, but I think may be much under-considered is the extent to which rationality of direction diminishes as population increases.
I think it's a mistake to believe that, since we are rational beings, all outcomes in politics and society in general are based on rationality. The population break-down of weed species in my field is influenced by many factors, and rationality isn't one of those. I think it's possible that the same kinds of factors affect human dynamics in ways that are often mistaken for rationality, just because we're individually capable of rational thinking.