If GOOD things happen to ME, it’s because of my personal talent and effort. If BAD things happen to ME, it’s the rotten, corrupt, system. If GOOD things happen to THEM, it’s the rotten, corrupt, system. If BAD things happen to THEM it’s because they are crooked and lazy. The right-wing mindset. - ThreadSky

jowolff.bsky.social • 83 days ago

If GOOD things happen to ME, it’s because of my personal talent and effort.

If BAD things happen to ME, it’s the rotten, corrupt, system.

If GOOD things happen to THEM, it’s the rotten, corrupt, system.

If BAD things happen to THEM it’s because they are crooked and lazy.

The right-wing mindset.

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peterjosyph.bsky.social•83 days ago

Now add a layer of religion, according to which it’s Jesus who sent that firefighter to lead you to safety on 9/11 while the people jumping from 100 floors up were fending for themselves until they exploded on the ground, presumably because they weren’t quite as special in God’s Plan…

samcoleridge.bsky.social•83 days ago

Then top off with deep culturally instilled inadequacies, perceived slights, active and passive mental and physical abuse, and stick in the oven to fester for a few generations.

linguistforsail.bsky.social•83 days ago

Too many people use the word "luck" indiscriminately but forget to account for its existence. Maybe acknowledging the idea of random chance would be fatal to the hubris of an image of complete self-determination?

spike29.bsky.social•83 days ago

The corollary:

Policy X is BAD because it helps THEM and THEY should pull themselves up by their bootstraps.

Policy X is GOOD because it helps ME and I deserve it.

spike29.bsky.social•83 days ago

💯

chrisweston.bsky.social•83 days ago

It's the mindset of someone with no capacity for self reflection. Perhaps that could be genetically weeded out 🫠

dailynous.com•83 days ago

To be fair, the fundamental attribution error seems to cut across political lines.

jowolff.bsky.social•83 days ago

Probably. I was struck by this particular one reading Strangers in Their Own Land by Arlie Russell Hochschild a few years ago, but it’s taken a while for me to formulate it properly.

iainbking.bsky.social•83 days ago

It’s a very widespread view; we naturally take things that go right for granted, but look to allocate blame for things that go wrong. It’s why so many people think they’re an outsider (even most insiders).

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