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How Labels and Affiliations Affect our Judgment.

As a society we are empathetic to those we consider our allies, and unsympathetic to those we consider to be our enemies often times becoming outright hostile to them even when we dont have any direct evidence they are our enemies. For example when a situation comes on the news where it is between someone we view as on our side against someone we view as against us, people have a tendency to excuse the actions of "our guy" and blame the victim or the party of the victim for provoking the attack, and when it is the other way around people flip the script and say that the perpetrator is a prime example of the rhetoric of our enemies and say that they represent all those on that side. when we view situations based on labels and team affiliations we lose sight of the issue and it becomes us vs them instead of a terrible act that was unfortunate regardless. And this opens us up to be controlled by the leading party figures because they can use those situations as propaganda beca...
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The Pitfalls of Modern Liberalism

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Liberalism is an ideology that was founded as a way to fight for common liberties, it is a sect of progressive ism and while initially with good intent, like most things, it has gone astray thanks to modern ideals which are contrary to the pursuit of freedom. Modern liberalism fights against common liberties in the name of "safety" and "emotional distress." A modern liberal will fight against the right to speak freely for fear of offending someone, they'll argue that your rights are merely privileges afforded to you by the government which can be stripped at any moment, like what we've seen with major social media recently. [1] Common arguments used by modern liberals mostly include straw men. They'll say their personal experiences are facts and use them to argue against any logical argument that is put before them and when disputed they'll devolve to name calling and other disreputable methods of suppression even going so far as to label you...
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