Current Events > Why do some seemingly nice individuals hold such backward & abhorrent views?

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Real_Account
07/21/19 9:45:37 PM
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It's one of those things I have a hard time understanding...

I have meet many individuals who are on the surface seem like genuinely nice folks, that is until politics come along and they revealed to hold some extremely abhorrent and backward views like: being against gay marriage & LGBT rights, believing that gay is "a mental illness that needs to be cured", that immigration is ruined America etc..

It's really sad and depressing... I wonder why and how some people come to hold such backward viewpoints...
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Knowledge_King
07/22/19 7:22:41 AM
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Not really backwards, just different.
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DarkRoast
07/22/19 7:26:49 AM
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The answer is that the world is not a dichotomy of good and evil and few things are entirely divided across those lines, but when you're entirely on one side of an issue, you see the world as if it is. Especially when your political views are comprised of absolutes like "all people who believe X are Y."
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Solid Snake07
07/22/19 7:29:43 AM
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It's called fox news
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ArchiePeck
07/22/19 7:31:42 AM
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Knowledge_King posted...
Not really backwards, just different.


If you still believe in things like "gay curing therapy" in today's world then yeah you're legitimately intellectually backwards.
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0xDEFECADE
07/22/19 7:32:30 AM
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sometimes people have horrible resentments
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Ving_Rhames
07/22/19 7:54:56 AM
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Because they get all their nastiness out of their system in their shitty facebook groups
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ThyCorndog
07/22/19 7:56:50 AM
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cause the people around them agree with them. a lot of that stuff you're talking about has been normalized for decades or centuries or longer

you wouldn't necessarily think your opinion was wrong and that you were a bad person if most people around you thought the same thing
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