• @danc4498
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    3317 hours ago

    I don’t think it was bad faith. I think the conservative voters vote have a “me first” mentality. So when minorities are complaining about their negative treatment for being a minority, and how that negative treatment goes back literally hundreds of years and continues to this day, all the conservatives can think is, “well what about me??” They are genuinely narcissistic.

    • @MutilationWave
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      614 hours ago

      That’s an important part of it. Let’s say half of it. I’d say the other half is zero-sum thinking about literally everything. If they see someone receiving help, their brain is screaming at them that those resources could have gone to them instead. I think it presents more as a strong feeling of moral right and wrong. They will never understand equity when their brain is tuned so badly wrong.

    • @[email protected]
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      1016 hours ago

      Also the mentality of many boomers. During the height of BLM protests I had to explain to my mom, who has voted Democrat my entire life, that all lives matter was a reactionary response meant to downplay or dismiss the experiences of black people.