# I Pit damuriajashi and DemonTree

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 18, 2020, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-damuriajashi-and-demontree/928300 "2020-12-18T00:49:58Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 9, 2025, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-damuriajashi-and-demontree/928300/1078 "2025-05-09T13:50:35Z")

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This feels like the right time to mention this one. My post:

> [@Why have conservatives left this message board?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-conservatives-left-this-message-board/1017016/382):
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> For a message board whose mission is fighting ignorance, it wasn’t even a remotely serious point in the way that you tried to make it. Is there some data you’d like others to consider – data that supports this position? I’ve admired a lot of your posts. This “social conservative” stuff, however, points to a deeply corrupted sector on your hard drive.

Her reply:

> [@Why have conservatives left this message board?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/why-have-conservatives-left-this-message-board/1017016/388):
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> Me: I think it’s bad that young people seem to be more bigoted than old ones, and that people are being openly racist when they weren’t before. You: You must have a screw lose. woman_shrugging

I think the phrases ‘corrupt sector’ and ‘screw loose’ have _very_ different connotations.

‘Corrupt sector --’ at least as I used it – implies cognitive biases and errors that tend to result in flawed and illogical processing of valid information; a powerful filter that tends to distort and result in erroneous conclusions.

'Screw loose," to me, is far more an accusation of a frank psychiatric disorder – not at all what I meant.

Sometimes, it isn’t the hive mind piling on a poster who holds minority opinions, but a poster’s predisposition toward victimhood that we see.

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