[ SECRET POST #6935 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #6935 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I think this is an extension of the lack of critical thinking/reading comprehension these days. To be able to work through problems or understand other people's thought processes you have to be able to hold contradictory information in the forefront of your mind, which seems to be an impossibility for a large portion of today's media consumers. Any character who has ever done anything wrong is forever and always irredeemable and if you like that character you MUST be a person who supports such actions IN REAL LIFE, you murderer. It's impossible to like a character who does Horrible Thing A and not want to do Horrible Thing A yourself! (Because why would you like such a thing in fiction unless you want to do it??? Check and mate!)

They think that everyone has the same limited point of view as themselves and are unable to understand that other people can think in ways completely different to them.... such as being empathetic and understanding how a villain got to be that way but also not condoning their actions.

[(Anonymous)]

Sad but true. And you see it sometimes when people discuss RL people/celebrities too. If someone made one off-color remark on Twitter 15 years ago when they were a teenager, some people will hold that against them forever and treat them like they're an irredeemable garbage human being, forever deserving of contempt.

[(Anonymous)]

It's horribly self reinforcing. People will come at you for not having the same viewpoints and you argue your side and whatever, that's always how it worked. But in the purity culture of once-problematic-always-problematic, if you are persuaded that you were wrong about anything and admit to it, you'll be shamed for ever having been wrong in the first place and now you get it from both sides. This leads people to double and triple down on being wrong because the other option is a high chance of abuse for owning up to it and growing as a person.

[(Anonymous)]

To be able to work through problems or understand other people's thought processes you have to be able to hold contradictory information in the forefront of your mind, which seems to be an impossibility for a large portion of today's media consumers.

I dunno, your average Republican seems pretty good at doublethink... or are you describing something else?

[(Anonymous)]

OK, this is implied in the "forefront of your mind" part but:

You have to be able to hold contradictory information in the forefront of your mind knowing, understanding, and recognizing that it is contradictory information.

I don't think republicans have a forefront of their minds; they swap out their contradictory thoughts second by second whenever it's the most advantageous and, if you ever get them to think both at the same time, their brains shut down rather than try to square that circle. You can see it happen in real time in a lot of man-on-the-street interviews.