Why The Right Thinks There is No Accountability
You’ve seen it a thousand times.
Someone on the right says something vicious. Cruel. Hateful. And when you finally push back, when you stop tolerating it and say no more, they act completely shocked. Wounded. Victimized.
“I thought you were supposed to be the civil ones?”
This isn’t accidental. It’s a strategy. And it has a name.
Researchers studying power and political behavior call it asymmetric norm enforcement, when one group demands rules that only apply to everyone else.
They can say and do what they want. You have to stay quiet, stay polite, stay civil. The moment you don’t, they melt…
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