I register people to the left of me as misguided and stupid and people to the right of me as outright evil and crazy. However, every time I alieve that something is evil and crazy, my auto-steelman module pops up to yell “THEY PROBABLY MAKE SENSE TO THEMSELVES, THINK MORE”, so I end up being more charitable to people to the right of me. This is the exact opposite of how thinking that people are evil is supposed to work.
This. Also, people to the left of me tend to assume I’m On Their Side for miscellaneous demographic reasons and I sometimes am but not always so around them I feel like a traitor who will be cast out when discovered. The people I meet in the real world who are to the right of me are all really pleased to discover I’m not a leftist so I feel unique and interesting around them.
#i endorse none of the reasons for my beliefs