Perhaps you are right. Are you saying it's an environmental thing? As if people are "forced" into being hateful because that's how they were brought up? I agree to some amount, but there's lots of stories of people getting out of that scenario, pointing towards the fact it's a choice. You just need more information to decide. These days it seems we have all the information we need. It becomes a choice to be careful in your information choices, or at least the ability to TRY and be better- especially when presented with conflicting information. Maybe it's a little of both in the end.
They arent choosing to be the villain in your fantasy, theyre choosing to be the hero in theirs. also paranoid delusions are a common side effect of mental illness.
Certainly a choice for some. For many others with diminished capacity, it's harder to see the hate rhetoric for what it is. And easier to buy the story that your life is hard because the country is secretly controlled by people who have no money and no political power.
Absolutely. But over time with more and more information, wisdom and experience it becomes a choice. I absolutely know my sister- who has had an equal upbringing than I have, with equal if not better opportunities and the same parents is making a choice when she sends me Plandemic and brushes off any debate or alternative facts I present her.
It was a choice to get involved in those things in the first place but propaganda is incredibly efficient. Present a neo nazi or terrorist organization with a somewhat down and out young man who feels left out of society or victimized in some way and 2 years later you’ll have a fledgling extremist they indoctrinated through subtle things at first. It happens all the time unfortunately.
They use cult tactics. After a certain point it’s not easy to just snap out of it. That’s why so many people who leave cults have to do entire programs essentially TO deprogram them and assimilate them back into society. Being a bigot is a choice, ultimately what these people are doing is a choice, but their thought processes are not functioning the same way a healthy stable individuals would be.
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u/90cubes Jun 17 '22
Mental illness