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It absolutely is. One of the biggest arguments today about global warming is that since Al Gore lives in a mansion and rides in a personal jet, it's not real, b
by Clubber 9y ago
It absolutely is. One of the biggest arguments today about global warming is that since Al Gore lives in a mansion and rides in a personal jet, it's not real, because he personally isn't doing anything about it by moving(?) or flying commercial.
You should read some right winger stuff now and again. It's another world.
- nostrademons 9y agoThe right also believes that Donald Trump is going to sock it to the wealthy coastal elites, despite being a billionaire real-estate developer from Manhattan, and espouses family values while electing a man who bragged about the size of his penis in a presidential debate. (I could give plenty of instances of liberal hypocrisy too, but that isn't the subject at hand.) I think a more accurate model is that people pick their tribe emotionally, and then "their guy" can do no wrong while "the other guy" is the devil incarnate. All manners of hypocrisy are forgiven in the process.
- Clubber 9y agoThis is how I see it as well. People get so emotionally tied to a particular argument, whether that be gun control or abortion or whatever, and it becomes all consuming where all other discussion or ideas seem fall by the wayside as secondary. I suspect for our only two viable political parties, that's a feature, not a bug.
- chongli 9y agoI think a more accurate model is that people pick their tribe emotionally, and then "their guy" can do no wrong while "the other guy" is the devil incarnate. Rhetoric such as the use of logical fallacies like tu quoque is most effective on people who haven't picked a tribe yet. Dyed-in-the-wool supporters have the job of repeating the fallacies aimed at the other guy. It doesn't matter if they believe them or not.