[HN Gopher] They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the ...
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       They Saw a Protest": Cognitive Illiberalism and the Speech-Conduct
       Distinction
        
       Author : MaysonL
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2022-07-27 22:21 UTC (40 minutes ago)
        
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       | dane-pgp wrote:
       | > Subjects of opposing cultural outlooks who were assigned to the
       | same experimental condition (and thus had the same belief about
       | the nature of the protest) disagreed sharply on key "facts" --
       | including whether the protestors obstructed and threatened
       | pedestrians.
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       | That's scary, but it's potentially really helpful in
       | understanding the connections between language and belief.
       | 
       | I know there's some controversy about the validity of the so-
       | called Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, but the idea that language and
       | perception affect political culture was well understood by George
       | Orwell, and I'm not surprised if the idea intersects well with
       | the "ultimate attribution error" phenomenon from social
       | psychology.
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       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ultimate_attribution_error
        
         | schoen wrote:
         | The authors also give the paper some motivation at the outset
         | by referring to a dispute between Supreme Court justices about
         | what should be obvious to a viewer of a video of a protest. One
         | justice said that the video depicted protected speech activity,
         | while another said that it didn't.
        
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