#MoralHypocricy #USPolitics #LucasBean

You’ve seen it a thousand times.

Someone spends years saying the most vicious things imaginable. Calling people groomers. Threatening civil war. Celebrating cruelty. And the moment you push back, even once, they collapse into victimhood. Suddenly you’re the problem. Suddenly you’re uncivil. Suddenly you’re the one who needs to calm down.

This isn’t random. It isn’t hypocrisy in the casual sense. There is a specific psychological mechanism at work, and researchers have been studying it for decades.

Psychologists Piercarlo Valdesolo and David DeSteno at Northeastern University ran a series of experiments examining how people judge the exact same behavior depending on who commits it. Their findings were stark. People consistently rated identical actions as fair and acceptable when performed by someone in their own group and unfair and unacceptable when performed by someone outside it. Same behavior. Completely different moral judgment. They called this moral hypocrisy.

What makes this relevant to American politics right now is the scale at which it has been weaponized.

One more thing the #TangerineTyrant has in common with Hitler. While German troops were starving in Russia, he spent his time "reimagining" Berlin with Albert Speer. #uspol #uspolitics

https://www.thedailybeat.com/trumps-bonkers-unwind-sessions-with-pet-project-leak/

Why am I suddenly getting right wing content recommended to me in youtube?

#youtube #politics #usPolitics