Re:Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds
by Simulacra on Friday September 25, 2020 @01:03PM
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It's America's obsession with self righteous indignation. "How dare you not go along with the mob and put on your mask. What kind of horrible person are you?" Americans, of which I am one, have this mentality that if someone disagrees, they are a terrible, horrible person that must be crushed by your rightness.
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Re:Boulder prohibits gatherings of any size for 18-22 year olds
by nickthemagicman on Friday September 25, 2020 @01:29PM
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Yep. Completely agree.
There's very little middle ground anymore.
It's just pure righteous indignation from all sides.
Trump bad, guns good, abortion good, q anon good...and on and on.
I personally blame the media, where most people get their information, for presenting things in an extremely one sided non-nuanced manner, no matter, what party or group you hail from.
It makes it impossible to empathize with the other side or see other ideas if it's presented already by the media as unquestionable ideas.
However, it's also on the population for being intellectually lazy and not validating or verifying what they see on the news media.