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Could it be all the conservative propaganda that gets people prejudiced against things they're ignorant about and aren't impacted by?
by gkoz 5mo ago
Could it be all the conservative propaganda that gets people prejudiced against things they're ignorant about and aren't impacted by?
- inglor_cz 5mo agoIDK, but I have read a lot of objections from feminists as well. Where I live, the religious population is under 10 per cent, but complete atheists will argue like this as well. I suspect the "ick" factor is simply inherent here. Kids provoke instinctive protective/emotional reactions in a way that other phenomena don't. For example, it is quite obvious that Trump faces a lot more popular backlash due to his suspected connections with Epstein than over his actual threats to Denmark/Greenland and war with Iran.
- gkoz 5mo agoNon-religious people are also susceptible to the FUD about supposedly or genuinely new things. Whatever innate ick there clearly is, it gets co-opted to demonize much wider ranges of things, and conversely can be suppressed like in the Epstein's circle's case. I don't find it convincing that the legislators passing reactionary prohibitions are just driven by a natural ick rather than particular agenda.
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