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Every outgroup-is-awful rant reveals more about the ranter than about the outgroup.

• coldtea 10y ago
  That would depend on whether the outgroup is actually awful or not. How about "neo-nazi's are awful". Does that tell much about the ranter?
  • dictum 10y ago
    It does. Unless the content of the rant is literally the phrase, "neo-nazi's are awful", the rant will present arguments, anecdotes, feelings etc. that reveal the ranter's priorities and principles. It's not in the what, it's in the why.
    • coldtea 10y ago
      >the rant will present arguments, anecdotes, feelings etc. that reveal the ranter's priorities and principles. And those "priorities and principles" could be very well accepted and approved by almost everybody priorities and principles, like "don't harm others", "jews and blacks are not inferior", "violence is not the right way to solve problems" etc, which don't tell anything particular about the ranter.