How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral

Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by thrownmeawaypls on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @05:32PM (#22241809)

but people are more sexist and racist than they realize. it's literally in our genes to prefer the in-group over the out-group.

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Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by BurningFrog on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @09:14PM (#22243388)

Well, yeah, but the ingroup/outgroup here is ideological, not racial or sex based.

The Woke and the Trumpists hate each other because they're each other's outgroup.

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Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by dotism on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:18PM (#22242227)

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Re:How knitters got knotted in a purity spiral by dropit_sphere on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @06:31PM (#22242317)

Same place as the lines for "lets you check wikipedia" in the source code of the browser you're using.

In other words: nowhere in particular, yet when you take the end product as a whole, it's there still the same. The realities of group selection will not be mocked.

So, maybe not "literally in our genes" like GP wrote in the sense of specific location, but ineradicable nonetheless.

This concept of "ineradicable yet impossible to pin down" is a pattern you'll see anywhere development happens from abstract top-down pressures. Amazon's problems with AI-assisted hiring are relevant here, as is the connection between corporate malfeasance and quarterly targets.

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