Quote (Handcuffs @ Sep 3 2021 03:27pm)
My hypothesis is that answering the following questions truthfully may illuminate contextual predictors for an individual's posting habits, communication style, and capacity for good-faith interactions:
1. What was/are the prevailing political and religious beliefs of your parents/primary caregivers growing up? (i.e. What were those beliefs and how prominently or not were they espoused growing up?).
2. What are the prevailing political and religious beliefs in your current surrounding country/state/community/city/town? (i.e. Do you live in a conservative and rural area, a moderate suburb, neoliberal city, progressive town, etc.?).
3. How would you describe people who have political and religious views that are different, or even opposed, to your own?
4. How would you describe people who share your political and religious views?
5. How many real-life relationships do you have with people who hold different, or even opposing, political and religious views to your own? What rough % of people with different or opposing views constitute your total real-life interactions (i.e. High/moderate/low/no interaction with people who hold different/opposing views)? And, finally, what is the frequency of real-life political and religious discussion you have with people who hold different or opposing political and religious views? (i.e. A parent/friend that holds different views and whom you speak to/see often; Never really speak about politics/religion with others of different/opposing views; Frequently discuss politics and religion with others of different/opposing views).
6. Where do you get most of your political news/information from and how would you describe the type of source? (i.e. Cable news, print, online articles, non-primary source 'react' videos). Do you ever watch/read unedited, non-react, primary source news reporting from sources that hold different political views than you?
7. Lastly, how would you describe your own communication style and interaction with people who hold different or opposing political and religious views than you? This can be both in-person communication and also online interaction such as PaRD, and potentially, are there differences between the two?
1) they grew up christian but gave it up when the drug revolution hit
2) multifarious af canada is a 'mosaic' everything from oldschool loggers to hippies to CCP loyalists
3) i would describe them as interesting
4) i would describe them as rare and/or non-existent
5) if i count people i only see a few times a year, there is great diversity in the opinions i hear
6) mostly podcasts coupled with my own fact checking. i listen to everything from the daily to morning wire. vaush to tim pool, megyn kelly, sam harris, even that fuck-o alex jones gets my attention from time to time.
7) i like to think that i try to draw things out of people, whether they are being hypocritical or not. if they aren't, i learn. if they are, they generally don't