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The problem you are experiencing is an interesting one. It turns out conservatives understand liberals but think they are misguided. Liberals, on the other ha
by carsongross 10y ago
The problem you are experiencing is an interesting one. It turns out conservatives understand liberals but think they are misguided. Liberals, on the other hand, do not understand conservatives and, therefore, think they are evil.
A liberal has written and spoken extensively on this phenomena:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jonathan_Haidt
- sho 10y agoI suppose I was more interested in what specifically in the quoted text was supposed to embody left-wing ideology. Discounting the aforementioned loan forgiveness idea, which does smell pretty left-wing, what exactly is it? Isn't everyone in favour of better education? Fixing infrastructure? I couldn't hear the dog whistle. And FWIW I wouldn't really identify either way (maybe fiscal conservative, social liberal) but yes, hearing someone react viscerally and negatively to the suggestion we improve education did make me wonder if the OP was simply malicious, or was perhaps making some kind of joke. Hence the (serious) question.