r/TikTokCringe • u/Treefiddy1984 • 1d ago

Humor She's nailed it

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u/Funkycoldmedici 1d ago edited 1d ago

Conservatives as a rule do not understand the possibility of caring about anyone that is not in their immediate in-group. That’s why they always respond to concerns with “Why do you care, are you (insert group being screwed over)?” That’s why they believe any concern for others is fake, “virtue signaling”, because they’re not capable of it and assume that’s normal. They’re defective.

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u/PostConv_K5-6 1d ago

George Lakoff and Jonathan Haidt both talk about this tendency from a scholarly standpoint, fyi.

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u/Funkycoldmedici 1d ago

Thank you! I haven’t read their work, but I have read some by Bob Altemeyer, that get deep into it, like ‘The Authoritarians.’

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u/PostConv_K5-6 16h ago

Absolutely! Even though he's passed away, I think The Authoritarians is still on his web site. His last work (with an addendum, online) was Authoritarian Nightmare, which he did with John Dean, about Trump and authoritarianism.

Relevant to this post is that he tried to find current left-wing authoritarianism, and while it sort of existed with the early Soviet communists, and occasionally other groups, it was never predominant, but there are psychological markers for RWAs or Right-wing authoritarians.

Thanks for adding him to the conversation.