Gregory's ServerSorry to bring twitter here but this is a perfect example of fundamentally conflicting beliefs held by racists. The second tweet immediately follows the first one but also directly and clearly contradicts it. Imagine there is a real person between this, holding these deeply conflicting attitudes. This is cognitive dissonance and won't be a happy situation for them, as well as making them look stupid and doing profound harm to others. So why do they do it?
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@darius Well in the first one they say they don't have a position on 'taking the knee' and in the second way they say it breaches their standards. They're both saying it is unimportant, and saying it's totally unacceptable.  @yaxu oh I for whatever reason did not see that clause. Sigh. Yes that's either cognitive dissonance or simple pedantics -- like we don't have a formal company position on it but it does happen to go against our standards that don't specifically mention it. Sort of like if I said there is no law against murdering someone with a watermelon: that is technically true for a narrow definition. Anyway it sucks |
@yaxu what looks like cognitive dissonance to you and me can be easily explained on their part as just having a different set of baseline assumptions. For example, 2 does not contradict 1 if you believe that racism is only the act of an individual doing or saying racist things to another individual. Or if you believe that 2 is simply dangerous grandstanding that does no anti-racist work.