I recently learned there’s a phrase for this. it’s ‘tribal epistemology”:
Stop saying that the protests against DJT today and the previous protests against Obama are the same. They aren’t. I will give you two reasons. (There are more.)
I heard during Obama’s administration (First List):
-Obama is not American (he was born in Kenya)
-Obama is not Christian (he’s a Muslim) + Obama’s going to put us all under Sharia Law
Republican pundits kept on about this, and on, and on, and never stopped about this. There was/still is a lot of fear and anger on these points.
That is NOT THE SAME as (Second List):
-the (nominee for) health secretary and Republicans in Congress are trying to repeal my healthcare although they have no working plan to replace it
-the education secretary has no experience and is considering defunding public schools
-the labor secretary’s career is based on undermining worker’s rights
-the head of the EPA wants to abolish…
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