Ostroeuropa wrote:Galloism wrote:Or rather, it's only part of the story.
Sort of like if you lived on an island and determined the world is a small piece of land surrounded by water. From your perspective you're not wrong, and that certainly is part of the world, but there's so much more to the world than that.
For that to be accurate you'd have to have another island clearly visible, off in the distance, and for them to routinely assert that's merely this island from behind, while also going apeshit and destroying any boat that attempts to sail to it.
Your analogy is too charitable.
Heh, well, not all of us can see the other island. You're being too harsh.
Here's the thing - I had the same ideological blind spot for many years, even for a few years after I was raped by that woman - I didn't KNOW it was rape for a woman to drug me and have sex with me while I didn't know what was going on. That's how strong the social blind spot is. You'd think I'd have at least recognized it as a crime of some sort, but I didn't - because I was told for many years that women don't do that and men don't suffer that, so even staring me in the face it wasn't recognizable.
One of things that I struggle with is how long I lived in that blind spot, and how many things I missed. And here I am, trying to point out the blind spot for others and... often I see them do the same things I did at first. Double down, refuse to accept the data, get angry and make excuses for why the original view was correct.
Some have dubbed this the backfire effect.