Ann Coulter (Is she hateful?)

Hi Modulous et al And one rather obvious factor is cognitive dissonance -- that the posts create such cognitive dissonance in foreveryoung that he can't stand to read them.EnjoyEdited by RAZD, : ...

Hi foreveryoung Curiously, the anger is due to the cognitive dissonance (CD) between what the posts say and what you believe. The more you are emotionally attached to your beliefs the more you feel anger when they are threatened.All people react this way, it is part of the "human condition" to react this way because we are essentially emotional beings with the ability to have a thin veneer of rational thoughts ... but not to the extent of being able to lose the emotional responses.As I see it, there are two factors that contribute to the amount of CD:

• the degree of disagreement between your belief and the presented information, and
• the degree of emotional attachment you have to your belief.

The greater these are the more CD you (we) will experience. Yes, they were angry because her posts contradicted what they believed, and this caused CD in them that then caused anger. Anger is the first symptom of CD.One way this CD (and the anger) is reduced by rejecting the contradictory information as false or intentional propaganda (as you have done and as military leaders did).Another way is to show by evidence that the information actually is false.The question remaining, then, is whether you can actually show that this is false information and propaganda, rather than just hiding behind it to salve your attachment to your beliefs.Just claiming something - without providing any empirical objective evidence that it is so - is just making another blind assertion, creating another emotion based belief. It may satisfy you, but it certainly won't necessarily satisfy anyone else.Enjoy.

Hi jar, Hateful Definition & Meaning | Dictionary.com

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hate•ful
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1. arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
2. unpleasant; dislikable; distasteful: She found her domestic chores hateful.
3. full of or expressing hate; malignant; malevolent: a hateful denunciatory speech.

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She is on the "hate radio" circuit and uses terminology that encourages hate among followers and anger in targets. She is certainly a provacateur in that regard. That certainly is a possibility, and fits with the behavior observed the limited times I have watched/listened to her. She was essentially asked this question while promoting her lates diatribe on "the View" and dodged the question rather than refuted or denied it.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxLIPLU1yM8Enjoy.

Hi Faith, See Cognitive dissonance - Wikipedia

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Cognitive dissonance is the term used in modern psychology to describe the state of people when holding two or more conflicting cognitions (e.g., ideas, beliefs, values, emotional reactions) simultaneously. In a state of dissonance, people may sometimes feel surprise, dread, guilt, anger, or embarrassment.[1] ...

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Several examples are provided. This is a very real condition, and being able to recognize it in your own reactions as well as in the reactions of others can hopefully lead to more meaningful debate through understanding what is happening. Bringing your emotions under control is not a remedy for the cause of the anger, just a way of "treating" the symptom. If you understand the cause of the anger and can then work to reduce that, then the anger does not occur. People don't get angry when told that 1+1=2 when that is what their worldview also tells them. On the other hand if you are told that 1+1=10 you may feel confused, insulted or surprised, and perhaps get angry if the other person insists that 1+1=10 is true without providing the information that this is due to using binary (base 2) counting (10 in binary ≡ 2 in base 10) That depends on how emotionally you are attached to your opinions\beliefs that are being challenged by contrary information. In the science disciplines we are taught\encouraged to embrace tentative acceptance of ideas and concepts, while in most religions one is taught\encouraged to believe things on their face value or the word of an elder etc. -- this leads to conflicting information when they contradict each other. Actually he said she was a provocateur, someone who says things just to get a reaction. On internet boards her behavior would be classified as trolling: trying to provoke an angry response. She also is very free with the facts. My opinion is that she is deceitful, welcomed by the gullible because of who she attacks rather than because of what she says and whether or not it bears any resemblance to reality. I also think that she tries to be hateful while pretending to be innocent of being hateful.I class her as an unreliable source of information, someone that will say anything to get a reaction, and thus not worth reading or listening to. Actually, you showed that it embraces some liberal views regarding diversity, but not that the university as a whole was liberal. Curiously, I don't see diversity as being excluded from conservative values.liberal and conservative are not black and white, but rather a spectrum. Cognitive dissonance.

[center]1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10
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When you stand at 3, everything to the right of you is conservative. When you stand at 7, everything to the left of you is liberal, and the two of you will disagree about 4, 5 and 6. When you cannot read a post because your eyes glaze over, your mind rejects the information, and your somatic response move into anger mode, you can either think this is a normal everyday experience or you can understand the problem for what it is.Understanding the problem is the first step in resolving it. The motto of this forum is "Understanding through Discussion" and a distinct part of this is understanding what is going on when there are two different viewpoints in conflict.Enjoy.
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Hi foreveryoung Curiously, I would put myself at 2 or less, and my opinion is that overall Fordham is slightly more conservative than liberal as it is a religious college with a conservative religious background, a 6 or possibly a 7. So where are you on the scale that you see it as liberal?Enjoy.Edited by RAZD, : spacing

Hi xongsmith Indeed, and a history that is not the biased viewpoint of the victors of history. The history of native americans and their contribution to the concepts and ideas that went into the constitution, for example; the scandalous history of intentionally spreading sickness among native tribes to kill them off, for another. Good and bad not just the rosy glow of what you would like to believe occurred.Enjoy.

Hi foreveryoung, So between your 8 and my 2 we disagree about whether the people between us are liberal or conservative. According to your breakdown that would be 60% of americans. You mean those who accept pure fiction as an economic theory? Do you know than Rand lived on Social Security at the end? Curiously, you are assuming positions you have no basis for assuming ... except for your personal perception that they are liberal.Fordham being historically a catholic and jesuit university that espouses catholic and jesuit

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Fordham University, the Jesuit University of New York, is committed to the discovery of Wisdom and the transmission of Learning, through research and through undergraduate, graduate and professional education of the highest quality. Guided by its Catholic and Jesuit traditions, Fordham fosters the intellectual, moral and religious development of its students and prepares them for leadership in a global society.

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Fordham affirms the complementary roles of faith and reason in the pursuit of wisdom and learning. The University encourages the growth of a life of faith consonant with moral and intellectual development. ...
Fordham gives special attention to the study of the living tradition of Catholicism, and it provides a place where religious traditions may interact with each other and with contemporary cultures.

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Fordham draws its inspiration from the dual heritage of Christian Humanism and Ignatian Spirituality, and consequently sees all disciplines as potential paths to God. ...

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Given the emphasis on Catholic and Jesuit teaching, I would be rather surprised if they supported abortion ...Enjoy.Edited by RAZD, : 60%