Understanding American right-wing Indian hate
In the last few years, there has been a stark increase in anti-Indian posts. You can surely find your own examples on social media. Because of this, various right-leaning posters…
Conspiracies and their believers
Summary Conspiracy theory has negative connotations of falseness, implausiblity or irrationality, but we also know many conspiracies are true, ranging from the ordinary criminal case (conspiracy to commit murder) to…
Who’s prejudiced? Who’s a conspiracy theorist? Sampling bias in social science
You have no doubt heard that conservatives are more prejudiced and just generally stupid than leftists. For instance, LiveScience in 2012: And in 2017 Vox talks openly about how all…
Who’s your out-group?
See related posts in rationalist sphere: Scott Alexander, I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup Jakob Falkovich, In-Groups, Out-Groups, and the IDW (in Quillette) So the story goes like this:…