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Yes. A lot of depression about the world is driven by left wing views. Women are more left wing than men, liberals are obviously more left wing than conservativ
by revelio 4y ago
Yes. A lot of depression about the world is driven by left wing views. Women are more left wing than men, liberals are obviously more left wing than conservatives, and young people are more left wing than older people. So being young liberal and female is the intersection of all those categories.
I don't know how important being white is there, but I also don't see much discussion of race in this line of articles, only gender geography age and politics.
- Juliate 4y ago[citation needed] Especially because left/right dichotomy smells particularly anecdotal here.
- revelio 4y agoThe article and related articles in the series are a pretty good place to start! They're laying down a lot of rigorous evidence that depression is strongly clustered in the most left wing segments of the population. Now correlation isn't causation, but in this case the causal path is pretty clear. If you believe that the world is systemically racist, sexist, unjust, doomed to extinction and that half your friends/family are secretly evil fascists/Nazis, then we'd expect you to feel depressed. When people with those beliefs turn up more frequently in ER for self harm and suicide attempts, we have both a correlation and a plausible cause.