For me, the most memorable example of this is when Tara Reade accused Biden and I saw a woman who had vehemently advocated for BelieveWomen, instead suddenly tweet “Proof of rape or STFU”.
I just read about the experiments of Henri Tajfel, who demonstrated that people favor members of their "in group" over the "others" even when researchers drew those lines and assigned subjects to groups in arbitrary and capricious ways.
Humans are fundamentally bigoted. Anytime lines are drawn between "us" and "them", the "us" become superior and more important.
That's why I believe critical race theory, when anything other than a novelty for university studies, is fundamentally ignorant and immoral. It appeals to the most base and destructive tendencies of the human being.
It's also why I believe we can't have a functioning country where solutions to issues are less important than demonizing the other side.
Yeah, I’ve read a lot of social psychology and it is crazy the degree in which humans will conform to an ingroup no matter how arbitrary or random it may be.
You may recall the classic Robber’s Cave social experiment: https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html, where two groups of boys were split into two camps, and they very quickly became extremely hostile to each other simply based on an identity they just got.
“Base and destructive” is a very good way to describe it. We humans built successful societies by trying to limit divisions, CRT and other theories only propagate it. One can acknowledge that race and racism exists without reducing people to only their race, and work together to end racism instead of inflaming divisions.
And that’s all we have in America today. Divisions. Polarization is harmful to any society that wants to remain stable.
Thank you for this rational-minded take. I don't agree with a lot of case outcomes either. Some conservatives don't agree with Curtis Flowers walking free. Some liberals don't agree with Kyle Rittenhouse walking free. Most people don't agree with the OJ Simpson or Casey Anthony verdicts. Yet I'd rather have them walk free than for innocent people to be locked up. And I've read too many stories of innocent people spending dozens of years in prison before being exonerated.
People mess up all the time. We'll never get a system where we can be 100% sure we got it right. The idea of an innocent person in prison is perhaps the biggest violation of freedom we have in America, yet statistically speaking, there are definitely innocent people in prison right now.
I'm also anti-death-penalty, for this very reason.
For me, the most memorable example of this is when Tara Reade accused Biden and I saw a woman who had vehemently advocated for BelieveWomen, instead suddenly tweet “Proof of rape or STFU”.
I just read about the experiments of Henri Tajfel, who demonstrated that people favor members of their "in group" over the "others" even when researchers drew those lines and assigned subjects to groups in arbitrary and capricious ways.
Humans are fundamentally bigoted. Anytime lines are drawn between "us" and "them", the "us" become superior and more important.
That's why I believe critical race theory, when anything other than a novelty for university studies, is fundamentally ignorant and immoral. It appeals to the most base and destructive tendencies of the human being.
It's also why I believe we can't have a functioning country where solutions to issues are less important than demonizing the other side.
Yeah, I’ve read a lot of social psychology and it is crazy the degree in which humans will conform to an ingroup no matter how arbitrary or random it may be.
You may recall the classic Robber’s Cave social experiment: https://www.simplypsychology.org/robbers-cave.html, where two groups of boys were split into two camps, and they very quickly became extremely hostile to each other simply based on an identity they just got.
“Base and destructive” is a very good way to describe it. We humans built successful societies by trying to limit divisions, CRT and other theories only propagate it. One can acknowledge that race and racism exists without reducing people to only their race, and work together to end racism instead of inflaming divisions.
And that’s all we have in America today. Divisions. Polarization is harmful to any society that wants to remain stable.
This is excellent!
Thank you for this rational-minded take. I don't agree with a lot of case outcomes either. Some conservatives don't agree with Curtis Flowers walking free. Some liberals don't agree with Kyle Rittenhouse walking free. Most people don't agree with the OJ Simpson or Casey Anthony verdicts. Yet I'd rather have them walk free than for innocent people to be locked up. And I've read too many stories of innocent people spending dozens of years in prison before being exonerated.
People mess up all the time. We'll never get a system where we can be 100% sure we got it right. The idea of an innocent person in prison is perhaps the biggest violation of freedom we have in America, yet statistically speaking, there are definitely innocent people in prison right now.
I'm also anti-death-penalty, for this very reason.