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Simple: It's like I said I was travelling through Mexico and loudly commented that I was meeting a lot of bike thieves. In the really real world, I'm saying Me

by 13of40 8y ago

Simple: It's like I said I was travelling through Mexico and loudly commented that I was meeting a lot of bike thieves. In the really real world, I'm saying Mexicans are bike thieves. In the weasel words world I'm just commenting out of the blue about the statistically improbable series of nefarious folks I met.

nate_meurer 8y ago
Interesting. So you projected yourself onto someone else's comment, which allowed you to evaluate it strictly and narrowly against your own experiences and programming. You constructed an idealized hypothetical scenario whose wrongness you could specify ("out of the blue" and "improbable"), which thus provides a judgement you can defend somewhat logically. But then you applied that judgement to a completely dissimilar and unrelated comment, made by another person who may or may not resemble you in any way. Your cognitive dissonance was so powerful that it convinced you that marcus_holmes was "painting all Americans with one brush". Not just a personal and anecdotal sample, as stated clearly in his comment, but all Americans. I hope you're at least willing to submit your own speech to the same sort of language-policing. A brief look at your comment history shows that you paint with a similarly broad brush at times: > In fact, a great part of [Christianity in the US] runs counter to the actual teachings of Christ. > It's very weird to me that a society [the U.S] that currently has, for example, a huge anti-gun movement, based on ideas like "every child deserves to grow up in a safe community", would at the same time treat the deaths of 10,000 people as a rounding error. But that's literally how we are. > The ex-Soviets I've talked to about this pretty unanimously relate that they were raised to think the USSR was the best country on earth, just like we are in the US.

by 13of40 8y ago

nate_meurer 8y ago

Interesting. So you projected yourself onto someone else's comment, which allowed you to evaluate it strictly and narrowly against your own experiences and programming. You constructed an idealized hypothetical scenario whose wrongness you could specify ("out of the blue" and "improbable"), which thus provides a judgement you can defend somewhat logically. But then you applied that judgement to a completely dissimilar and unrelated comment, made by another person who may or may not resemble you in any way. Your cognitive dissonance was so powerful that it convinced you that marcus_holmes was "painting all Americans with one brush". Not just a personal and anecdotal sample, as stated clearly in his comment, but all Americans. I hope you're at least willing to submit your own speech to the same sort of language-policing. A brief look at your comment history shows that you paint with a similarly broad brush at times: > In fact, a great part of [Christianity in the US] runs counter to the actual teachings of Christ. > It's very weird to me that a society [the U.S] that currently has, for example, a huge anti-gun movement, based on ideas like "every child deserves to grow up in a safe community", would at the same time treat the deaths of 10,000 people as a rounding error. But that's literally how we are. > The ex-Soviets I've talked to about this pretty unanimously relate that they were raised to think the USSR was the best country on earth, just like we are in the US.