My model of politically motivated reasoning is that it usually feels reasonable to the person at the time. So does reasoning that is not so motivated. Noticing that you feel the view is reasonable isn’t even strong evidence that you weren’t doing this, let alone that others aren’t doing it.
This also matches my experience—the times when I have noticed I used politically motivated reasoning, it seemed reasonable to me until this was pointed out.
I agree with this, but it doesn’t feel like it quite addresses the thing that needs addressing.
[I started writing a reply here, and then felt like it was necessary to bring up the object level disagreements to really disentangle anything.
I actually learn slightly towards “it would be good to discuss the object level of which people/orgs have confusing and possibly deceptive communication practices, but in a separate post, and taking a lot of care to distinguish what’s an accusation and what’s thinking out loud”]
My model of politically motivated reasoning is that it usually feels reasonable to the person at the time. So does reasoning that is not so motivated. Noticing that you feel the view is reasonable isn’t even strong evidence that you weren’t doing this, let alone that others aren’t doing it.
This also matches my experience—the times when I have noticed I used politically motivated reasoning, it seemed reasonable to me until this was pointed out.
I agree with this, but it doesn’t feel like it quite addresses the thing that needs addressing.
[I started writing a reply here, and then felt like it was necessary to bring up the object level disagreements to really disentangle anything.
I actually learn slightly towards “it would be good to discuss the object level of which people/orgs have confusing and possibly deceptive communication practices, but in a separate post, and taking a lot of care to distinguish what’s an accusation and what’s thinking out loud”]