I was talking with my step-brother (far-left tech IPO in NYC) the other day about cooking and something he mentioned caught me by surprise. He was talking about cooking and how this new channel had picked up a bunch of chefs who were racially discriminated against by Delish? and we’re getting paid far less than their peers. So they switched over and made their own program that had been doing well. The baseline of this is of course that is good because if they can do better elsewhere they should. However what struck me as odd is that the accused channel is far left, in fact it would be hard to find any large cooking channel that isn’t pro whatever wokeness is currently on display.
This discussion triggered a realization in the mentality of the far-left, their projection on who they view as lessers (conservatives) is not directed by the actions of conservatives but by the actions of who they consider similar. So if a far left supporting business is caught having rampant racism or sexism their immediate reaction is how much worse conservatives must be. This is amplified by the fact that liberals often do not understand why conservatives value what they value, they only understand what they are told they value by other liberals.
Yes, I think all of us notice this at some point. Ryan Long's comedy is no joke.
My non-expert observation is that this is Carl Jung's "shadow self" at work. We all have "bad thoughts" (anything inconsistent with our "normal" programming) from time to time, and they need to be reconciled into our consciousness somehow. In this example bad thoughts might be noticing crime statistics and news and thinking "I don't want to live in an all minority community", or wanting to cross to the other side of the street when a creepy looking black dude walks by. We all reconcile those thoughts in different ways. Many just treat them as random mental noise or imaginations and ignore, while others easily fit them into their world view or rationalize them away as reasonable conclusions from simple pattern recognition. Thoughts from our shadow self are either made to fit our bias, or are thrown out. Most people will do this reconciliation at a subconscious level so they never notice a cognitive-dissonance in the first place.
"Liberals", on the other hand, absolutely refuse to embrace the shadow self. They can't have bad thoughts. I'm a good person. So they project their ideas onto the "other". Any negative thoughts are just interpreted as reasonable fear and loathing of the Devil that their culture has created: the conservative, Republican, white supremacist boogey man. The shadow becomes form. In creating an "other", they have cleansed themselves of the shadow self. Without acknowledging they ever did anything wrong in the first place, they are absolved of sin. Any racist thoughts they do admit to are a byproduct of the white supremacist country they grew up in, so they might embrace woke ideology as a continued penance.
Extreme liberalism is a mental disorder.