However, I think there must be many among you who understand the shock of leaving your family and community, perhaps to go to college, and slowly discovering that there are people who don’t think like you.
Not really—because, as a member of a conservative fundamentalist Christian family, I was warned over and over that most other people didn’t think like us.
I’d like to see more exploration of the contradiction pointed out in your first paragraph.
You can get some feel for what typical Americans are like by reading the comments on youtube videos. They’re more random samples than talk radio. Check out the crazy comments on this (warning) violent video. On one hand, you learn that most Americans are so racist that they think it’s funny when a black guy gets hit by a truck. And on the other hand, you have the guy who believes that a black man who was dancing in the middle of a busy street got run over only because “He was trying to have fun and the white man Ran him over cuz they can’t stand to see us having fun.”
So you’re saying that the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory reveals people’s true preferences? That strikes me as monumentally cynical, but perhaps revealing; what do people’s anonymous and unaccountable opinions say about their normal behavior?
Looking at this through a slightly shady evopsych lens, my first impulse is to say that on the Internet everyone’s part of an outgroup until proven otherwise.
Not really—because, as a member of a conservative fundamentalist Christian family, I was warned over and over that most other people didn’t think like us.
I’d like to see more exploration of the contradiction pointed out in your first paragraph.
You can get some feel for what typical Americans are like by reading the comments on youtube videos. They’re more random samples than talk radio. Check out the crazy comments on this (warning) violent video. On one hand, you learn that most Americans are so racist that they think it’s funny when a black guy gets hit by a truck. And on the other hand, you have the guy who believes that a black man who was dancing in the middle of a busy street got run over only because “He was trying to have fun and the white man Ran him over cuz they can’t stand to see us having fun.”
So you’re saying that the Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory reveals people’s true preferences? That strikes me as monumentally cynical, but perhaps revealing; what do people’s anonymous and unaccountable opinions say about their normal behavior?
Looking at this through a slightly shady evopsych lens, my first impulse is to say that on the Internet everyone’s part of an outgroup until proven otherwise.