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For many affiliations, particularly political ones, your affiliation is more based on hating the outgroup than loving the ingroup. For example, I would wager th
by insickness 4y ago
For many affiliations, particularly political ones, your affiliation is more based on hating the outgroup than loving the ingroup. For example, I would wager that most Republicans hate Democrats more than they love Republicans and more progressives hate conservatives more than they love progressives. You need look no further than left and right leaning news sources to see this. A left leaning news source is far more about exposing people on the right than talking about how good the left is, and vice versa.
- sokoloff 4y agoI wonder how much of that is a structural defect in our political system/human nature-intersects politics. You get votes (and power) by promising to right wrongs the other side has perpetrated. You don’t get nearly as much votes and power from actually righting those wrongs and, in fact, the removal of those wrongs may reduce the future power you have to make promises to fix them.
- ellopoppit 4y agoIndeed, it seems more like a form of self defense than self affirmation