Pedro Zuquette, a former c0-blogger here at Augean Stables and one of the early contributors to Second Draft, just sent me this with the comment: Cognitive dissonance.
Having just had a conversation last night with a dear French friend who cringed at the “xenophobic” response to the latest round of Jihadi terror in Europe, I can appreciate the power of that dissonance:
Liberal Cognitive Egocentrists, unable to imagine an enemy who defies all their paradigm’s expectations, when faced with disconfirming evidence, shift rapidly to blaming their own “right-wing” for making things worse. It’s the reason that the “clash of civilizations” has been internalized between right and left, with the Jihadis getting off the hook, while the real problem going undiagnosed.
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