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This matches my experience. For a uniquely interesting spin on this, you might look at the case of Doug Jensen. After participating in the January 6th events,

This matches my experience. For a uniquely interesting spin on this, you might look at the case of Doug Jensen. After participating in the January 6th events, he willingly went for an interview with the FBI and then gave them his phone and his passwords so they could look. To me, that seems emblematic of a person who has never in their life been in a outgroup. The lack of awareness it would take to do that is astounding, but worth paying attention to; there are plenty of folks in the US who have never actually been on the receiving end of state power. As such they have no way of discerning what that power looks like, much less an appreciation for the real effects of it's use on themselves.

mwint 4y ago
For myself, I’d never been on the receiving end of state power until Covid. It does, without a doubt, change how you think about politics, government, etc.
- rnk 4y ago
  You never had vaccination requirements in your life? If you were in the US, there were endless vaccination requirements. If you were wanting to do sports, you had to have a physical. You had to take a driver's license test to drive. Since the 1970s in the us most people were not impacted by health challenges where they had to do anything, maybe with the exception of aids. I never had to think about getting a vaccination or a health issue that might affect me, I always got my shots for school, never thought about it. I think the covid vaccination was the first time a lot of adults had to think about a vaccination and there was a lot of pressure to get it (I'm in that category, I never gave vaccination a second thought, got a flu shot every year for example). People in my family who were engineers, always been vaccinated, even in the 50s knew some people with polio got influenced by the anti-vaxer world on facebook and started talking about the dark conspiracy and secret payoffs of us govt health workers. That was very sad to see.
  - mwint 4y ago
    > If you were in the US, there were endless vaccination requirements This isn't true, because I've lived here my whole life and experienced zero vaccine requirements since being so young I can't remember. Many that I or my parents chose to get, but those were by choice. This may be state-dependent.
    - mrexroad 4y ago
      Did you attend public school, or participate in youth activities such as sports or scouting?
      - mwint 4y ago
        Yes to all. Only vaccine requirements were all stuff I’d had many years ago, and none of those were developed in the previous 18 months. Though this is all somewhat irrelevant; the government didn’t mandate vaccines in most contexts. Coercion, yes, but not proper mandates. I’m thinking more of having my favorite businesses shut down, arbitrary restrictions that don’t make sense, government bodies ignoring clear law, etc. And I’m in a free state, compared to most others!
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mwint 4y ago

For myself, I’d never been on the receiving end of state power until Covid. It does, without a doubt, change how you think about politics, government, etc.

rnk 4y ago
You never had vaccination requirements in your life? If you were in the US, there were endless vaccination requirements. If you were wanting to do sports, you had to have a physical. You had to take a driver's license test to drive. Since the 1970s in the us most people were not impacted by health challenges where they had to do anything, maybe with the exception of aids. I never had to think about getting a vaccination or a health issue that might affect me, I always got my shots for school, never thought about it. I think the covid vaccination was the first time a lot of adults had to think about a vaccination and there was a lot of pressure to get it (I'm in that category, I never gave vaccination a second thought, got a flu shot every year for example). People in my family who were engineers, always been vaccinated, even in the 50s knew some people with polio got influenced by the anti-vaxer world on facebook and started talking about the dark conspiracy and secret payoffs of us govt health workers. That was very sad to see.
- mwint 4y ago
  > If you were in the US, there were endless vaccination requirements This isn't true, because I've lived here my whole life and experienced zero vaccine requirements since being so young I can't remember. Many that I or my parents chose to get, but those were by choice. This may be state-dependent.
  - mrexroad 4y ago
    Did you attend public school, or participate in youth activities such as sports or scouting?
    - mwint 4y ago
      Yes to all. Only vaccine requirements were all stuff I’d had many years ago, and none of those were developed in the previous 18 months. Though this is all somewhat irrelevant; the government didn’t mandate vaccines in most contexts. Coercion, yes, but not proper mandates. I’m thinking more of having my favorite businesses shut down, arbitrary restrictions that don’t make sense, government bodies ignoring clear law, etc. And I’m in a free state, compared to most others!
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