• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    I think a lot of them.have known they were wrong fo or a long, long time, but they’re too prideful to admit it. And I’m not entirely sure that’s their fault.

    As a society, we don’t put enough value in recognizing people admitting when they’re wrong or that they’ve made a mistake. We don’t celebrate people who change their minds. We don’t recognize that admitting you don’t understand something is good and an early step in making correct decisions.

    When people change positions, they’re riddiculed for being a flip-flopper or for being weak-willed.

    And then we’re shocked when people entrench themselves into support of a political party they’ve voted for for decades even when they recognize that they’re wrong.

    • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world
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      23 hours ago

      Ironically the deeply entrenched right are the first to point fingers and make accusations when someone says they were wrong or changes their mind, most publicly since Bush Jr.