The moral of the story is: We shouldn't try to take 5 factors & reduce them to 1 or 2, then jump to a conclusion. What we need to do as individuals & society is take the 5 factors and expand our analysis to include the 20 factors at play. Moving from simplicity to complexity not the other way around

Correlation doesn't = causation: if a school shooter did it because they were bullied at school for being overweight, wearing glass, having a stutter & they also grew up in an abusive household but you ignore all of that & instead assume its bc they vote Dem or GOP or have a certain kind of genitals

In today's social & political discourse people tend to only consider 5 variables in their thinking & they ignore/discount the rest.
1) are they a liberal or conservative?
2) are they male or female?
3) are they gay or straight?
4) are they white or non white?
5) are they christian or non christian?

Univariable analysis: (are they a man or woman, who did they vote for?)
Multivariable analysis: their upbringing x economic status x age x mental health x recent traumatic event x political climate x media consumpstion x social status x geopolitical landscape x local/national economy x drugs/alcohol

Examples: if a School shooter is trans (correlation) assuming that trans ideology caused the shooting, if the bomber voted Republican (correlation) assuming the GOP ordered the hit. If a victim of violence is gay, assuming sexuality was the motive, if A killer is muslim, blaming islam for the death.

Because guilt by association and fear of guilt by association are such powerful weapons of social control, political influence, and manipulation of the court of public opinion, people have started to use this same flawed logic to also assume false causations in science & fact based analysis as well.

The reason I'm going in depth is because this tactic is also used against homeless people, drug addicts, people on welfare, food stamps, social/rent control housing, Unemployement benefits. It frames Taxpayers as the "real" victims and paints poor people as the villains "justifying" cuts to services

Moral Disengagement and Neutralization are propaganda techniques often used to manufacture/engineer consent for oppression and genocide, because they frame oppression as "Self Defense" and the victims of oppression as "the enemy within", it's part of the Accusations in a mirror tactic of persuasion.

In general framing Recipients of Social Service benefits as lazy, incompetent, dishonest, scammers, leeches is a way of creating moral disengagement (The public stops empathizing with them/protecting them) & Neutralization (denying victimhood & grievances portraying the recipients as the enemy).

You would find Alberta Bandura's theory of Moral Disengagement and Sykes and Matza's theory of Neutralization techniques. This reframe of child benefits, SNAP, and other benefits meets the criteria. Blaming/discrediting victims & reversing the morality to make perpetrators look like the real victims

My hope is that in 2026 Conservatives on X and Liberals on Blue Sky can both give up the ego trip of being better than each other, being "eternal victims/persecution" of each other, attacking blaming, insulting each other. This evolution of character will heal society🇨🇦🇺🇸
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Identity Politics and Left vs Right Culture wars are just one massive ego trip that blinds people to truth and reality. They stop humanity from evolving and moving forward into higher planes of consciousness, more productive forms of social organization, and institutional structural functionalism.🇨🇦🇺🇸

If you're busy "being a man" then you alienate yourself from the 4 billion women and vice versa. If you're busy "Being a victim" then you alienate yourself from the power/ability & confidence in you. If you're busy "being right/winning" you alienate yourself from the magic, beauty & mystery of life.

Like I said on X, the last thing you want to be is a liberal walking around doing liberal things, or a conservative walking around doing conservative things. You want to be a free, independent living breathing human being, experiencing life & interacting with the world. m.youtube.com/watch?v=TZUf...

But that is the point, you'lll never know who you truly are as long as you're blinded by labels like man, woman, black, white, Liberal, conservative, prolife, prochoice, Dem, Rep As long as you define yourself as a member of a group & conform to that group, you'll never know your true authentic self