OK there’s something important here I think. To some degree, I ‘identify’ as being an Australian, due in part to the fact that I am an Australian (but also in part to the fact that I don’t live in Australia). But I don’t think of Australians as an embattled group, and I also don’t think this identity hinders my ability to reason about Australian affairs. So maybe there’s a thing where there are different ways people can have identities that have different impacts on rationality.
OK there’s something important here I think. To some degree, I ‘identify’ as being an Australian, due in part to the fact that I am an Australian (but also in part to the fact that I don’t live in Australia). But I don’t think of Australians as an embattled group, and I also don’t think this identity hinders my ability to reason about Australian affairs. So maybe there’s a thing where there are different ways people can have identities that have different impacts on rationality.