Hope and belonging: 5 people’s emotions that politicians bet on
Politics is impossible without manipulating the feelings of the electorate – but which voter emotions are targeted by vote-hunters and criminals? Here is an expert’s opinion. Voters’ affiliation to the left or right, conservative or liberal, in an ideal world, should be determined by the coherent system of facts that politicians provide. Obviously, education, gender […]
MICROAGGRESSIONS, SENSITIVITY, AND AMERICAN OVERINDULGENCE
For several weeks, there has been a discussion across the pond about two phenomena brought to the forefront by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt. In an article titled “The Coddling of the American Mind,” they discuss microaggressions and so-called “trigger warnings.” Both of these phenomena are seen by the authors as the cause of an […]