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With regards to modern progressivism and how it treats certain ideologies associated with conservatism, the inverse relationship is also true, though.Being irrational/unethical because you are super irritated by how your worldview is treated by those it is meant to demean and look down upon doesn't really make it better.
People who routinely compound their negative experiences by making them much worse and retreating into hatred and unethical behavior ARE examples of what I would call "bad people".
And you can tell who the bad people are by how they act. To your point though, the "acting out" is usually well on the road, so it is a troubling sign when people do.
A lot of the rhetoric associated with it is aimed at demeaning and looking down at certain conservative values (and even lumping them in with unrelated conservative values when convenient).
Though I lean more to the liberal side on a number of issues, because not all my views are "modern progressive orthodoxy", I've had a few of those accusations sent my way. "You're upholding the patriarchy" "Implicit bias, etc..." been called a "Trumper" (even though I didn't vote for him)
I don't think a lot of it is rooted in actual "hate"....and I'm not necessarily suggesting that all of the were virtuous. There are certainly scumbags out there.I have my doubts that the people going down these roads are virtuous people that are simply misunderstood, frustrated and "not taken seriously".
Hate is something you have to want. It is something that people invite into their hearts and embrace.
Perhaps a better way of framing it:
How do people behave when they are (or feeling that they are) denied capital? There are different forms of capital...there's monetary capital in a market economy, there's social capital in the marketplace of ideas.
If you can understand (not condone, just understand) why a young man of a minority race may turn to a life of crime due to the societal climate they're born into and how society is treating them and referring to them and have a chip on their shoulder, then you may be able to understand why people in other groups may have the same weaknesses and fall into certain traps. (especially during the years of life when they're full of "p & v" as the expression goes.
While I'd agree with what you implied that "hate" is a learned behavior (nobody springs from the womb inherently hating anyone else for superficial differences), I'd suggest that other people who happen hate the same things they do aren't always the "teacher" in that "learning dynamic". A young black man doesn't have to have a member of the Nation of Islam as a mentor in order to become distrustful of white people or the police.
With a lot of the rhetoric that's taken place in certain pockets of the left that have been amplified, it's framed around the idea that the absolute worst thing you can be a straight, conservative, Christian, white, cisgender, male.
If you're a 19-22 year old who meets 3 or 4 of those criteria, probably a bit of a "chip on the shoulder" feeling I would guess.
National conversations about "toxic masculinity" and "all white people have implicit bias" etc... and when a person who meets that criteria says "well that doesn't describe me", they're met with rebuttals of "that's just you're privilege talking" or "see, there's that white/male fragility we were talking about"... I can see how that would cause some people to get a chip on their shoulder.
And then things like this occur:
India Willoughby: Is it discriminatory to refuse to date a trans woman?
Was it transphobic for singer Ginuwine to state that that he wouldn't date a trans woman on reality TV show Celebrity Big Brother?
www.bbc.com
"If you identify as straight, but you won't date a transgender woman, then you're transphobic"
...that's not helpful either.
I don't have any issues with someone being transgender, and I would gladly be friends with, and invite into my home, a couple that's comprised of a cisgender male and transgender woman, but because I, myself, wouldn't date a transgender woman, that somehow makes me "phobic"? That doesn't seem like it's in-line with the narrative of "people can't help what they're attracted to".
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