You'd think that. You'd hope that. But plenty of people think they really are terrorists.
I'll go back to Covington. When that went down, I guy I knew (haven't spoken with him in several years) was convinced they were evil racist kids who attacked a noble Native American. I said "no they're not", he said "yes they are", I liked him a video of the event and he said "I don't have time to watch that!" even when I gave him some timestamps, and continued insisting the kids were at fault.
Guy in my (online) D&D group is from Canada, this briefly came up a couple weeks ago when this whole thing started, and he immediately went to "well, we've all seen the Nazi flags" and then went AFK for a bit.
Don't know if it is laziness, fear of being proven wrong, or something else but there's a lot of people who refuse the view the truth even if you literally shove it in their faces.
Being proven wrong has been shown in studies to be physically painful. Similar to flinching away from a candle flame, people flinch away from things they know will prove them wrong (and hurt them).
These people fail the Bene Gesserit Test of Humanity.
You'd think that. You'd hope that. But plenty of people think they really are terrorists.
I'll go back to Covington. When that went down, I guy I knew (haven't spoken with him in several years) was convinced they were evil racist kids who attacked a noble Native American. I said "no they're not", he said "yes they are", I liked him a video of the event and he said "I don't have time to watch that!" even when I gave him some timestamps, and continued insisting the kids were at fault.
Guy in my (online) D&D group is from Canada, this briefly came up a couple weeks ago when this whole thing started, and he immediately went to "well, we've all seen the Nazi flags" and then went AFK for a bit.
Don't know if it is laziness, fear of being proven wrong, or something else but there's a lot of people who refuse the view the truth even if you literally shove it in their faces.
Being proven wrong has been shown in studies to be physically painful. Similar to flinching away from a candle flame, people flinch away from things they know will prove them wrong (and hurt them).
These people fail the Bene Gesserit Test of Humanity.