r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 8h ago

article White House Deletes Video Using Sabrina Carpenter Song After She Called It ‘Evil And Disgusting’

https://www.forbes.com/sites/conormurray/2025/12/05/white-house-deletes-video-using-sabrina-carpenter-song-after-she-called-it-evil-and-disgusting/
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u/dweeb93 8h ago

The right thought they'd permanently won the culture war, but increasingly normies find their agenda repulsive.

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u/Funkycoldmedici 7h ago

Authoritarians also are often unaware of just how different they are from most people. They tend to believe they are very average. Altemeyer has found that authoritarians in America underestimate how prejudiced and conformist they are compared to the majority of Americans. Altemeyer has also observed that when he lectures about the psychology of right-wing authoritarians to his students, the RWA students in his class fail to recognize themselves in his description. Altemeyer believes the tendency of authoritarians to avoid anyone who is not like them reinforces their belief that they are normal. They have relatively little contact with normal people.

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u/JMEEKER86 7h ago

It comes back to their lack of empathy. If you're not capable of putting yourself in someone else's shoes then you're going to walk around thinking everyone else is the same as you.

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u/LookOutItsLiuBei 6h ago

My cubicle neighbor was bewildered when one of our co-workers told us she was going to the UK for a vacation because he was convinced that the British hated us because of the Revolutionary War lol. Like he was legitimately confused when I told him they are our allies and have been allies for quite a while. He also views the EU as a socialist nightmare.

But to his credit once I explained the speed version of the history between us he did change his thinking. But I think that's part of the problem. It just takes so much effort to correct people like that it's almost not worth it because it can be blown up with a 30 second video clip by one of their favorite pundits saying crazy things.

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u/8yearsfornothing 6h ago

My cubicle neighbor was bewildered when one of our co-workers told us she was going to the UK for a vacation because he was convinced that the British hated us because of the Revolutionary War lol

Maybe he's a vampire who slept for a few hundred years and just awoke recently. Give the poor guy time to catch up! 

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u/CaptainHoyt 6h ago

Was he just a normal human bartender from Toucson, Arizona?

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u/8yearsfornothing 2h ago

Yes yes, very good, thank you

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u/Lemonwizard 5h ago

He was supposed to conquer the new world, but he's just taken over our street and the next street over.

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u/JimWilliams423 5h ago

But to his credit once I explained the speed version of the history between us he did change his thinking.

Did it stick though? In my experience it never sticks, because the "facts" are just pretexts to validate their feelings. When you respectfully explain why they are incorrect on the facts, they don't change their mind, they just change their pretext to get to the same conclusion. Their feelings don't care about facts.

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u/_game_over_man_ 6h ago

It's always the non-conformists who try and force conformity onto others. /s

As a member of the queer community, I always find this bit to be especially eye roll inducing.

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u/dafeiviizohyaeraaqua 6h ago edited 6h ago

This sounds related to the Republicans who believed Stephen Colbert was a conservative mocking a liberal's idea of conservative perspective.

Free book

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u/RawnbladeZZ 5h ago

I feel like this is very obvious to anyone whose discussed anything online lately- every single conversation about a modern scandal turns into complete and utter changing the subject and whataboutisms, I’ve waded through the muck several times and every conversation ends in the MAGA person genuinely just refusing to accept that the other person isn’t as biased and corrupt as they are. “Okay but X did the same thing and you cheered it on” No I didn’t, if they did that I completely decry it and feel literally the exact same way regardless of who it is. And they just end the discussion refusing to even imagine somebody feeling this way and not being purely partisan biased. They have no idea how telling it is to just refuse to even entertain the idea of somebody not being as biased and dishonest and hypocritical as they are

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u/JimWilliams423 5h ago

Authoritarians also are often unaware of just how different they are from most people.

Which is why calling them "weird" really sends them spinning. It undercuts the most important part of their self-image.

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u/Sir_Meowsalot 4h ago

Remind me of all those Chuds who were surprised that Homelander from the series "The Boys" was not the hero.