Study of “moral grandstanding” helps explain why social media is so toxic

Re:Study of “moral grandstanding” helps explain why social m... by notJim on Thursday November 21, 2019 @05:05PM (#21600225)

I think it's the party engaging in voter suppression throughout the country, and the one that stripped the powers of the governor when someone from the other side won, and the one that literally fled the state so that the legislature didn't have quorum and couldn't pass legislation, even though they were a clear minority. Or the one that refused to confirm a seat on the supreme court for nearly a year, in an unprecedented move. I could go on.

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Re:Study of “moral grandstanding” helps explain why social m... by gred on Thursday November 21, 2019 @08:25PM (#21601637)

I think GP has a point, and I'll illustrate by trying to simply flip the very convenient mirror that you've set up. Please get past the initial emotional response (canards! blasphemy!) and just realize that this is a paragraph that roughly half the country will read with a straight face and agree with.

"I think it's the party engaging in voter fraud [1] throughout the country, and the one that tried to impeach the president when someone from the other side won [2], and the one that literally fled the state so that the legislature didn't have quorum and couldn't pass legislation [3], even though they were a clear minority. Or the one that falsely accused a supreme court nominee of rape [4], in an unprecedented move. I could go on."

It's evident to me that people of all political bents in this country are extremely tribalistic, and none of the tribes count many saints among their numbers.

Citations added simply to highlight that I'm not pulling any of this out of thin air:

[1] https://www.heritage.org/voterfraud

[2] https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2019/politics/impeac...

[3] https://www.npr.org/2011/02/17/133847336/wis-democratic-lawm...

[4] https://reason.com/2018/11/05/brett-kavanaugh-due-process-fa...

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