“many of the posters here, who don’t have some hands-on experience with being in a social minority and are not apt to readily grasp the difference between “I am angry/hurt by this AND think it is incorrect” and “my disagreement is purely emotional”).”
I think it is unfair to say they do not understand when they may simply believe that motivated cognition is occurring or similar.
Why is this being downvoted?
Dunno. Didn’t cite any sources I guess. ;p
I downvoted it for the following claim:
“many of the posters here, who don’t have some hands-on experience with being in a social minority and are not apt to readily grasp the difference between “I am angry/hurt by this AND think it is incorrect” and “my disagreement is purely emotional”).”
I think it is unfair to say they do not understand when they may simply believe that motivated cognition is occurring or similar.