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I’ve just had an epiphany that explains why so many people on the Left behave like stroppy toddlers. It all makes so much sense now.
The Left largely live in echo chambers - on social media, the news they consume, their jobs (largely public sector or woke media) - so they 1/
The Left largely live in echo chambers - on social media, the news they consume, their jobs (largely public sector or woke media) - so they 1/
don’t engage with people who think differently from them on a typical day, as the rest of us do.
This has led many of them to believe that what THEY think, feel or experience about something is what EVERYONE thinks, feels or experiences about that thing.
So whether it’s Brexit 2/
This has led many of them to believe that what THEY think, feel or experience about something is what EVERYONE thinks, feels or experiences about that thing.
So whether it’s Brexit 2/
Boris, the lockdown, BLM or anything else, they find it impossible to grasp the concept that OTHER people may have different opinions or experiences of those things that are equally true and as valid as theirs.
When faced with someone pointing out a difference of opinion 3/
When faced with someone pointing out a difference of opinion 3/
they react either by screaming insults or just repeating their own experience as if this in some way provides a refutation of everyone else’s.
This is exactly how young toddlers behave. They can’t grasp the idea that they don’t control all the people and the world around them 4/
This is exactly how young toddlers behave. They can’t grasp the idea that they don’t control all the people and the world around them 4/
and that other people aren’t just there to serve their needs.
It all makes so much sense now.
Basically the answer is this: the Left needs to grow the fuck up. 5/5
It all makes so much sense now.
Basically the answer is this: the Left needs to grow the fuck up. 5/5
