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Isn't it a strange coincidence that all of America's enemies (the Axis, the USSR, now China) "spoke with one voice"? This is just the well-known outgroup homoge
by knzhou 7y ago
Isn't it a strange coincidence that all of America's enemies (the Axis, the USSR, now China) "spoke with one voice"? This is just the well-known outgroup homogeneity bias [0]. Everyone lives in a bubble. You don't hear about other groups' internal divisions, but that doesn't mean they don't exist.
It's a subtle bias, but an insidious one. It has led to people reading my comments and thinking "His tone doesn't match up with the hysteria of the news article... so he must be a Communist party shill!" I wouldn't fare well in a second red scare; this is not a future to which I want to go.
0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Out-group_homogeneity
- jariel 7y ago? The 'Axis' definitely not 'speak with one voice' - nor did anyone ever use this term to apply to them. The term wasn't generally applied to the USSR either, although it's 'truthy' as their Politburo had immense central control over not just the USSR but Satelite states like Poland and E. Germany would could be given de-facto direct orders on many issues. But Xi Jinping is firmly in control: the depth and scope of information control, 7/24/375 monitoring of every citizen, absolute control over the political organs, military, finance, currency, finance - I think it's very rational to say there is 'one voice' in China. Xi Jinping may very well easily be the most powerful person in history. He has very long term ambitions for China, and his tactics are evidence of a pretty hardcore Realpolitik. Though most of it is non-threatening, much of it is, and there's obviously going to be a response.