Yes, you did have less patience than usual, but I understand why.
I even laughed at the cheap shot (which I usually do not):
> However, if you think that solution is to "decriminalise all drugs," I think you need to take less drugs.
Smokescreen is the perfect description of the spray of irrelevant arguments that CSJ converts throw out to obscure any discussion, without actually supporting their position. Like clownfish changing sex, as if that had anything whatsoever to do with human gender identity vs biological sex.
I am more and more coming to the conclusion that treating CSJ ideology as a quasi-religion makes the most sense, as many have suggested. After a life changing conversion, the mind is harnessed to fabricate rationales for what the unconscious wants to believe. Unquestioning faith in, and defense of, the ideology become a key part of people's self-concept or identity, so changing it is framed as a deep threat. If they hold a view on any issue which is unorthodox within their circles, they may be slipping into Satan's grasp, or becoming a MAGA extremist.
Jonathan Haidt gives some good examples of the rationalization process in "The Righteous Mind".
Yes, you did have less patience than usual, but I understand why.
I even laughed at the cheap shot (which I usually do not):
> However, if you think that solution is to "decriminalise all drugs," I think you need to take less drugs.
Smokescreen is the perfect description of the spray of irrelevant arguments that CSJ converts throw out to obscure any discussion, without actually supporting their position. Like clownfish changing sex, as if that had anything whatsoever to do with human gender identity vs biological sex.
I am more and more coming to the conclusion that treating CSJ ideology as a quasi-religion makes the most sense, as many have suggested. After a life changing conversion, the mind is harnessed to fabricate rationales for what the unconscious wants to believe. Unquestioning faith in, and defense of, the ideology become a key part of people's self-concept or identity, so changing it is framed as a deep threat. If they hold a view on any issue which is unorthodox within their circles, they may be slipping into Satan's grasp, or becoming a MAGA extremist.
Jonathan Haidt gives some good examples of the rationalization process in "The Righteous Mind".
"I am more and more coming to the conclusion that treating CSJ ideology as a quasi-religion makes the most sense, as many have suggested."
Yep, I actually think religion is too generous. Cult is the word.