I’m trying to figure the right term for a situation.
On another forum (NOT THIS ONE), there is a certain perceived cultural attitude. When that attitude is brought up on the forum, there is vehement push back… “oh, that just isn’t true!” … “you’re just trying to make a straw man to tilt at.”… “you can’t stand that you’re loosing and are just trying to make US look bad.”
The posters on this forum genuinely do not recognize how anti-(activity) they are (or at least I hope that is the case). Many are involved in a pre-(activity) industry that is threatened by the popularity of this new activity.
This is not the activity, but examples of where I’ve seen a similar blind-faith-refuse to look at both sides objectively, near-religious refusal to consider that their language is being abusive to the other side of the argument when used but the speaker claims it isn’t meant as a derogatory thing.
Vegitarians who call all non-vegitarians Carnivoirs
Gay people who refer to heterosexual people as Breeders
Tea Party Members who refer to the president as “The One”
I’m not against Vegitarians, Gay or Tea Party Members. And if they said, YES, I intended that as a slam, that’s honest and not what I’m talking about.
I’m talking about when they seem to genuinely believe that the terms should not be taken as negative by the other side. There has to be some term for that sort of lack of insight… isn’t there?
There has to be a word for that level of blindness to their dug-in-edness. This isn’t a confirmation bias thing (I’m not talking about changing opinions of anyone) I’m talking about identifying a communications flaw.
This is an in-ability to see that they are dug-in to a belief and so cannot realize that their comments are taken as rude and condesending by people without the same belief.
Sorry for being so long and redundant… but there has to be a word to describe this and I’ve been trying to come up with it for about three days… I just keep drawing a blank.