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.
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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
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
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"
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.
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
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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