[Snoozle]

Another concerning thing I've noticed is the ease in which some aspect of a person, such as if they are hesitant about getting the new vaccine, are tied to this group of other personality traits, such as anti-science, racist, conservative, Trumpist, anti-lgbt.

It's ridiculous how easily we are able to draw lines in the sand and push other people to the other side. I wonder what the attitude towards vague personality groups of the 'enemy' were like in countries that engaged in genocide and if this is a stepping stone to something worse. If you combine fear of economic failure or physical health and a group of people to blame for it, it seems a dangerous mixture.

[ifyoubuildit]

This scares me too. So many people seem to be eager to believe that the people around them are one dimensional cartoon villains.

It seems like some people have a lot of trouble with uncertainty. They have a need to decisively put things in a nice well defined box, even when there isn't sufficient evidence to do so. I think they might just be unable to say, "you know what, I'm not sure". It's much easier to say " well the news said xyz with their big flashy headlines, so that must be true. Shun the nonbelievers!"

[MrBuddyCasino]

Humans are tribal. This is enables cooperation and has some other pro-social effects, but it also means there is an out-group. Looking at history, over a long enough time horizon, the probability of minority genocide in a society approaches one.

People today like to pretend we have overcome this, that we have ascended - reborn like the New Soviet Man. This will have grave consequences, and their children will curse them for it.