{"id":28110,"date":"2014-10-08T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2014-10-08T04:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=28110"},"modified":"2014-10-04T17:50:50","modified_gmt":"2014-10-04T21:50:50","slug":"qotd-blue-tribe-and-red-tribe-media-encoding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2014\/10\/08\/qotd-blue-tribe-and-red-tribe-media-encoding\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Blue Tribe and Red Tribe media encoding"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Imagine hearing that a liberal talk show host and comedian was so enraged by the actions of ISIS that he\u2019d recorded and posted a video in which he shouts at them for ten minutes, cursing the \u201cfanatical terrorists\u201d and calling them \u201cutter savages\u201d with \u201csavage values\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>If <em>I<\/em> heard that, I\u2019d be kind of surprised. It doesn\u2019t fit my model of what liberal talk show hosts do.<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"http:\/\/rt.com\/usa\/168704-russell-brand-fox-news\/\" target=\"_blank\">the story<\/a> I\u2019m actually referring to is liberal talk show host \/ comedian Russell Brand making that same rant against Fox News for <em>supporting war against<\/em> the Islamic State, adding at the end that \u201cFox is worse than ISIS\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>That fits my model perfectly. You wouldn\u2019t celebrate Osama\u2019s death, only Thatcher\u2019s. And you wouldn\u2019t call ISIS savages, only Fox News. Fox is the outgroup, ISIS is just some random people off in a desert. You hate the outgroup, you don\u2019t hate random desert people.<\/p>\n<p>I would go further. Not only does Brand not feel much like hating ISIS, he has a strong incentive not to. That incentive is: the Red Tribe is known to hate ISIS loudly and conspicuously. Hating ISIS would signal Red Tribe membership, would be the equivalent of going into Crips territory with a big Bloods gang sign tattooed on your shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>In a way, Russell Brand would have been <em>braver<\/em> taking a stand against ISIS than against Fox. If he attacked ISIS, his viewers would just be a little confused and uncomfortable. Whereas every moment he\u2019s attacking Fox his viewers are like \u201cHA HA! YEAH! GET \u2018EM! SHOW THOSE IGNORANT BIGOTS IN THE outgroup WHO\u2019S BOSS!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott Alexander, <a href=\"http:\/\/slatestarcodex.com\/2014\/09\/30\/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;I Can Tolerate Anything Except The Outgroup&#8221;, <em>Slate Star Codex<\/em><\/a>, 2014-09-30.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Imagine hearing that a liberal talk show host and comedian was so enraged by the actions of ISIS that he\u2019d recorded and posted a video in which he shouts at them for ten minutes, cursing the \u201cfanatical terrorists\u201d and calling them \u201cutter savages\u201d with \u201csavage values\u201d. If I heard that, I\u2019d be kind of surprised. 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