Lotus Eaters has a video ( LINK ) discussing "What is Wrong with the Left?", and they led with a study I hadn't seen before
Archive link: https://archive.is/yygF3
From the article:
“I was very surprised that the level of liberal bias against conservatives was nearly three times greater than was conservative bias toward liberals,” Ridge said. “This is directly the opposite of what ideological asymmetry would predict. I was also surprised that given this result, liberal participants claimed that conservatives were much more prejudiced than liberals, whereas conservatives did not attribute any more prejudice to liberals than to conservatives. This is contrary to much popular opinion about liberals and conservatives in popular media and in the empirical literature.”
I am not personally surprised by this, as I am aware of previous studies that show the left really doesn't know all that much about conservatives in general, and do a really bad job at generalizing conservative ideas. I think this stems from the way the left is able to totally insulate themselves in an information bubble due to the overall heavy leftward bias in all cultural institutions.
That shows a problem for both the left and the right. Our side rightfully points out the left has no knowledge of the right. But these studies also show the right has no knowledge of the left. Conservatives attribute no prejudice to the left, when they should immediately assume the left is biased. What both sides are actually doing is projecting their own behavior on the other. The right doesn't really believe in anything, wants peace and safety above all else, and has no will to fight, so it projects that onto the left. The left is dogmatic, filled with unhappy people, and is constantly looking for a reason for conflict. So it projects that upon the right.
Not going to lie, you had me in the first half. Going to have to update my thinking on this one.
to summarize: the right thinks the left is retarded so we shouldn't take them seriously, the left thinks the right is evil so any harm they commit against us is justified
guess which side keeps winning
"A rich man thinks all other people are rich, and an intelligent man thinks all other people are similarly gifted. Both are always terribly shocked when they discover the truth of the world." - Strahd von Zarovich