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Huck Finn and the Gaslighting of America
- AnHonestComment 6y ago> talks about gaslighting > refers to people he disagrees with as a cult while saying he fundamentally agrees with authoritarian communists... just maybe less scale > discusses how allegations of racism were used to dismiss concerns about voter fraud — purely as a shaming tactic, sans evidence of actual racism > supports more of that shaming Uh, okay. Maybe gulags for the Trump supporters? But like, just for re-education — not mass murder, like those other leftists.
- dllthomas 6y agoThis analysis is interesting, but on the whole I don't think I like it. I'm sure there are bad actors in politics, but I think a whole lot of the multiple realities dynamic is explained by confirmation bias, motivated reasoning, &c, where most of the individuals involved are tricking themselves first. I suspect this is even often true of the individuals who reach the correct answer on any particular question, whichever that may be.