The embedded article about outgroups or the"Red Tribe" and "Blue Tribe" does an excellent job (for the most part - the liberal writer makes a few wrong generalizations) of peeling back the layers. In short:
You can talk all you want about Islamophobia, but my friends intelligent, reasoned, and thoughtful people her name for the Blue Tribe cant get together enough energy to really hate Osama, let alone Muslims in general. We understand that what he did was bad, but it didnt anger us personally. When he died, we were able to very rationally apply our better nature and our Far Mode beliefs about how its never right to be happy about anyone elses death.
On the other hand, that same group absolutely loathed Thatcher. Most of us (though not all) can agree, if the question is posed explicitly, that Osama was a worse person than Thatcher. But in terms of actual gut feeling? Osama provokes a snap judgment of flawed human being, Thatcher a snap judgment of scum.
That is, Blue Tribe people ("...liberal political beliefs, vague agnosticism, supporting gay rights, thinking guns are barbaric, eating arugula, drinking fancy bottled water, driving Priuses, reading lots of books, being highly educated, mocking American football, feeling vaguely like they should like soccer but never really being able to get into it, getting conspicuously upset about sexists and bigots, marrying later, constantly pointing out how much more civilized European countries are than America, and listening to everything except country) rarely engage in any interr-tribal criticism: I detest Bill Mahler but look at how the left hates him when he attacks radical Islamic terrorists. But bash the Red Tribe - even if they look like themselves - of course!
The Blue Tribe always has an excuse at hand to persecute and crush any Red Tribers unfortunate enough to fall into its light-matter-universe by defining them as all-powerful domineering oppressors. They appeal to the fact that this is definitely the way it works in the Red Tribes dark-matter-universe, and thats in the same country so it has to be the same community for all intents and purposes. As a result, every Blue Tribe institution is permanently licensed to take whatever emergency measures are necessary against the Red Tribe, however disturbing they might otherwise seem.
And so how virtuous, how noble the Blue Tribe! Perfectly tolerant of all of the different groups that just so happen to be allied with them, never intolerant unless it happen to be against intolerance itself. Never stooping to engage in petty tribal conflict like that awful Red Tribe, but always nobly criticizing their own culture and striving to make it better!
Deplorables aren't this messed up. We have no trouble criticizing Deplorables who get things wrong.
The opportunity for us, is to collect Blue Tribe members who see the self-destructiveness of their tribalism, and show them that they needn't live that way. You CAN hold certain liberal beliefs (e.g. War on drugs is bad) and Deplorables won't trash you.
Why do this? Because I don't want to lose this country or for Trump to be a one-term president. Let's take these years to convert Blue Tribe members to Deplorablism. Freedom always wins.
necroposting
anyway, the other day this thread appeared:
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3793647/posts
... and I was eventually reminded of this thread and again saw your comments.
I think the idea that we are racist / deplorable if we do and racist / deplorable if we don’t matches up.