In a certain way this is probably true. Since most new films are explicitly liberal-coded, disliking them is a signal you're not a liberal (and therefore a "bigot" or whatever).
It's the same way you can guess a person's entire belief system based on whether or not they complain about pretty women in anything.
This concept is i think the most basic and the most missed in popular dialogue.
I've called it the terminology error. Which is to say that catagory words dont denote categories but rather denote groups that the speaker feels fit said categories.
It's not the same thing, and it's why definitions are so important.
Questioning every claim first on precepts of shared language before validity is a step that's routinely skipped over.
To these people, this headline isn't even a discovery, it's a tautology. One of the definitions of bigot is "Disliking the new star wars.
In a certain way this is probably true. Since most new films are explicitly liberal-coded, disliking them is a signal you're not a liberal (and therefore a "bigot" or whatever).
It's the same way you can guess a person's entire belief system based on whether or not they complain about pretty women in anything.
This concept is i think the most basic and the most missed in popular dialogue.
I've called it the terminology error. Which is to say that catagory words dont denote categories but rather denote groups that the speaker feels fit said categories.
It's not the same thing, and it's why definitions are so important.
Questioning every claim first on precepts of shared language before validity is a step that's routinely skipped over.
To these people, this headline isn't even a discovery, it's a tautology. One of the definitions of bigot is "Disliking the new star wars.