5 Replies to “Group Polarization and the Fad of Ethnomasochism”
I used to be guilty of exactly the same thing before I had an epiphany and became a conservative. Movies like “To kill a mockingbird” and “In the heat of the night” pretty much convinced me that being a racist was the worst possible thing you could be and that white people – like me – were the only ones capable of it. If I had grown up in Nazi Germany perhaps I would have made a point of being an even-bigger-than-average Jew-hater, just to insure that the accusation of “Jew lover” was never leveled at me. In the same way you see Muslims struggling to out-hard-line each other in the hopes of not being devoured by the mob. My God, but that’s sick…
I enjoyed this post very much……..thanks.
Regards, Don Laird
Edson, Alberta, Canada
I have been waiting for years for someone to articulate this VERY thing, and isn’t it SPOT ON. I will remember and follow Hugh MacDonald in the future.
This is an example of how group think mentality works with humor:
Here is a video that gives a little more details on why it is done and how often with variations
Asch Conformity Experiment
I wondered what gave him the right to assume European people are more coo-coo then Americans, or Australians; but then i realized he means Westerners, or people of an European background.
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I used to be guilty of exactly the same thing before I had an epiphany and became a conservative. Movies like “To kill a mockingbird” and “In the heat of the night” pretty much convinced me that being a racist was the worst possible thing you could be and that white people – like me – were the only ones capable of it. If I had grown up in Nazi Germany perhaps I would have made a point of being an even-bigger-than-average Jew-hater, just to insure that the accusation of “Jew lover” was never leveled at me. In the same way you see Muslims struggling to out-hard-line each other in the hopes of not being devoured by the mob. My God, but that’s sick…
I enjoyed this post very much……..thanks.
Regards, Don Laird
Edson, Alberta, Canada
I have been waiting for years for someone to articulate this VERY thing, and isn’t it SPOT ON. I will remember and follow Hugh MacDonald in the future.
This is an example of how group think mentality works with humor:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8zlk9TZ4bA
Here is a video that gives a little more details on why it is done and how often with variations
Asch Conformity Experiment
I wondered what gave him the right to assume European people are more coo-coo then Americans, or Australians; but then i realized he means Westerners, or people of an European background.