Small brain hours 😞
The actual study seems to focus much more on conservatism than the Guardian article would suggest, but it's an important reminder to try and see the world in shades of grey rather than black and white.
It's one of those attention seeking headlines that largely ignores the actual study. The study was looking at rigidity of thinking, not ability to solve complex problems.
When I was a teenager, I took the "shades of grey" thing the entirely wrong way and started trying to preemptively assume there was nuance in situations that were actually pretty black and white. Like I was way too charitable to the Obama administration. It turns out imperialism and neoliberalism are just bad. They're complicated, sure, but that's not the same as being "grey", morally speaking. A lot of liberals seem to conflate holding a nuanced opinion with holding a moderate opinion, which is not the same thing. How nuanced things are and how much you like them are separate dimensions.
i hate the 'nuance and sophistication' argument from the pit of my soul. the libs who parrot this have none whatsoever. there is nothing in between healthcare and no healthcare, imperialism and anti-imperialism etc. Conceding those points becomes this aesthetic blurring of reality so quickly, e.g. Liz Warren might not offer single payer healthcare but she intends to have good healthcare, it's babbling babytalk.
Black and white should be included in your morality paint swatch
Study: Nazis are dumb.
Journalists: Extremists are dumb. Consent manufacturing machine goes brrr..
The study focused on extremists as right wing extremist views from what I read in the abstract and scanned in the study.
So leftists weren't grouped in with them, it's not a horseshoe theory deal.
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0424#RSTB20200424TB1
Is that why it took so long for this site to launch after the reddit ban?
