It's so continually frustrating how people continue to misunderstand right wing thinking. Almost every formulation of the social media gotcha "it's so wild how X when Y" is really just another way to say "I've never tried to understand the way these people think." - ThreadSky

ursagets.excessively.gay • 12 days ago

It's so continually frustrating how people continue to misunderstand right wing thinking. Almost every formulation of the social media gotcha "it's so wild how X when Y" is really just another way to say "I've never tried to understand the way these people think."

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trueblocka.bsky.social•12 days ago

Yes! People can't say, "I don't know how they can do xyz, it doesn't make any sense." It's because they are after a completely different set of goals that you can't even fathom.

ursagets.excessively.gay•12 days ago

We totally can fathom it though! And we should be fathoming it! They don't even do THAT good of a job lying about it or hiding it

trueblocka.bsky.social•12 days ago

Totally! It just takes people thinking about things differently than their ingrained thought patterns. People don't do that very often. We do NEED to do that though. I was reading up on the racist stuff done in the first half of the 1900s, that was way more hidden. Now they don't even try to hide it

trueblocka.bsky.social•12 days ago

Specifically how they wrote into law items that harmed predominantly the black population.
It's now how they are going after the Trans population and immigrants but they don't hide it in law they just flat out persecute. It's intolerable and can't be allowed

ursagets.excessively.gay•12 days ago

Oh yeah I think this culture of rugged individualism explains a lot of it. It's self centered thinking instead of community centered thinking

ursagets.excessively.gay•12 days ago

I really think the underpinning of that whole turn of phrase is supposed to be another way of saying "this is so (insert synonym for bad, wrong, immoral, etc) that it's beyond my understanding." And what that actually means is "I'm so much better than this way of thinking that I can't understand it"

ursagets.excessively.gay•12 days ago

It's a rhetorical sorting device to make sure everyone knows the speaker is better than the thing they're critiquing. Because "gosh if this is so evil I can't even grok it, that must mean I'm quite morally righteous." The critique isn't really the point, the point is the speaker's aggrandizement.

ursagets.excessively.gay•12 days ago

I'm not a psychologist, so that could all be bullshit. But it's hard for me to see another explanation that makes sense. It just feels like most people's politics are about self soothing more than about making things better for anyone. That framework makes so much seemingly wild behavior make sense

ursagets.excessively.gay•12 days ago

And you don't gain that understanding to sympathize, you do it because you can't effectively counter them unless you actually understand how they think. It's fair to play to point out the contradictions and hypocrisy but to keep going "I just don't get it" and "it'll never make sense to me"

ursagets.excessively.gay•12 days ago

THATS A BIG PART OF THE PROBLEM. because from the POV of advancing white supremacy and patriarchy, essentially everything they do is rational, logical, and consistent with advancing those aims.

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