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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Exactly poster above me!  100%.

Of course conservative religious people can by very cruel and hypocritical and vigorously enforce compliance and punish those who stray from the pack.

But guess what, Jen?  So can progressive religious people!  Sometimes even more so!  My husband is an academic at a state university in the midwest.  We both have largely only voted for Democrats since the early 2000s.  But he has to keep a lot of his personal viewpoints on matters completely private because he knows there is not any tolerance in his professional life for anything that goes against a certain narrative.

Jen's moral blinders are outrageous.  Very back and white thinking like a simple person.  "My team is 100% good and virtuous all the time and THAT OTHER TEAM is 100% bad and evil all of the time!".

Jen loves to insist on how "nuanced" she is.

But true nuanced thinking isn't tribal boosterism.[/quote]

Exactly. True nuanced thinking doesn't align with any ideology 100% of the time (because if it does, you've just outsourced your critical thinking responsibilities to the hive mind) and understands it will take some flack for it, because groups like to police their borders. It seems to be a human thing; it's just something we do.

(And your husband's experience gels with what many of my friends in academia say--it doesn't matter how many times you've proven your bona fides as part of the left, you will be excoriated if you step out of line. If you're going to do it, make sure you have tenure.)

Her enthusiasm feels exactly like a high school girl who's dumped one friend group and is now convinced she has found her BEST FRIENDS FOREVER until one of them also likes a boy she likes.  :roll: [/quote]

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