Re:Kill Whitey- It’s the right thing to do.
by yummyfajitas on Thursday September 16, 2010 @02:16PM
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A rather simpler explanation is simply that the black guy is a member of the liberal tribe. A way to test this: replace "Chip" and "Tyrone" with, e.g., a low income housing or gun rights activist.
Re:Kill Whitey- It’s the right thing to do.
by btilly on Thursday September 16, 2010 @03:07PM
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Simpler, but I think incorrect. Liberals tend to take positions which include going out of their way to fairly treat people that they very well know don't agree with them. As exhibit A I would take about half the stuff the ACLU does, and as exhibit B most of the efforts to support multiculturalism.
That is not to say that there are not liberal tribes - there clearly are - but the mores that they have push them away from straightforward acceptance of tribalism.
First, you're putting people in a position where they are on the boundaries of what they consider acceptable. Anything that affects those boundaries, will affect their choice.
Conservatives in general have no problem with tribalism. In the abstract any life is equal to any other life, but it is only reasonable that I should personally protect the lives of my tribe (be that ethnic group, social class, country) more diligently than I do another tribe. So conservatives tilt towards protecting their tribe.
Liberals are not only not comfortable with overt tribalism, they are sensitive to accusations of racism. So when pushed to the boundary, they won't tell the interviewer that they'll kill the black guy - that could be seen as racist. But the white guy doesn't have that protection, so off he goes.
Liberals no more want to off the white guy than conservatives do the black. But silly things like "my tribe" or "I don't want to be seen as racist" affect choices on the boundary.