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Hortensis

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24. Claiming everyone but them is bigoted is also a right-wing spin.
Thu Nov 26, 2015, 11:45 AM
Nov 2015

Very typical. Interestingly, social scientists say that people prone to "bias," are almost never biased just against one target but normally all groups that aren't like them and that in some way arouse their hostility. That's because the bias comes from within, targets for the hostility and aggression identified after.

So a person who's racially biased has almost certainly been struggling a bit with the recent love-the-Jews they're-going-to-die-for-us end-times theme of evangelicals. Expecting them to die fighting Islam is the easy part, of course, the love not so much.

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