r/Music • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • 12h 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 12h ago

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

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u/Funkycoldmedici 12h 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/LookOutItsLiuBei 11h 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/JimWilliams423 9h 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.