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0 pointsjiggawatts3y ago0 comments

Same here. Something I always find hilarious is conversations with people who's opinions are very polarised due to their membership in groups. For example, I have a friends that are variously: a Christian priest, libertarian, anti-vaxxers, and Trump supporters.

Invariably, in every discussion, they'll trot out this sentence: "You <opponent group name> people always think <notion>".

For example: "You Liberal party voters always support lowering taxes" or somesuch sentence.

I point out that I didn't vote for the Liberal party.

"The Labour party voters are the same!"

I point out I didn't vote for Labour either in the most recent election either.

"Err..."

-- at this point their brain locks up, because they're expecting a tribe-vs-tribe fight and they have no idea what to do when they discover I don't actually belong to their "enemy tribe".

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YurgenJurgensen3y ago

You're lucky to have avoided encounters with the more advanced tribalists then. Most of the more engaged members of these groups will already have a prepared retort that insinuates that anyone not an active member of $THEIR_TRIBE is by necessity part of $OTHER_TRIBE.

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