Imagine admitting that you're just biologically predisposed towards fear as if that's a positive quality. "Yes I am actually a primal beast who jumps at my own shadow, like all great predators do. This means I'm the pinnacle of biology!"
If you believe you're an 'alpha male' (or whatever Greek letter they're on now), I guess it makes sense to believe you are the pinnacle and every deviation from you is not indicative of anything negative in you, but is instead indicative of problems the 'betas' are facing
Also that tweet lmao
Conflating leftists and liberals
'My brain more fearful of brown people and that's good'
Phobic is a slur
Misunderstanding that 'smaller' is not 'atrophied' lmao, as one indicates a comparison between two masses without bias, and the other indicates one is undersized relative to another
Without an average size reference, it’s wrong to say whether one is too large or the other is “atrophied”. Using science as a pretext for whatever story they wanted to tell.
The answer is simply that the liberal brainworm tends to move around after it consumes neurons while the conservative brainworm likes to stay in one spot.
Without an average size reference, it’s wrong to say whether one is too large or the other is “atrophied”.
There's an old story I remember but can't find a good citation to, that discussed a medical investigation into SIDS during the early 20th century. In an effort to determine the cause of these dead infants, a series of autopsies was performed and compared against adults. One finding in the autopsy was the size of the pituitary gland, which was quite small in the adults but comparatively large in the infants. The investigators concluded that an over-large pituitary was contributing to the infant death and therefore recommended irradiating the necks of babies as a precautionary measure.
Of course, this did not decrease the rate of SIDS in the targeted population. Just the reverse.
The problem in the methodology was that the town in question had a number of large coal stacks that rained toxic soot on the population. Long exposure to this fallout was functionally irradiating the population. Furthermore, the adult corpses being studied were all industrial workers with unusually high exposure. The infants being studied had healthy glands, and the adults were the ones with a chronic condition.
The answer is simply that the liberal brainworm tends to move around after it consumes neurons while the conservative brainworm likes to stay in one spot.
I contend that its lead poisoning all the way down.
yep this is why certain substances can both simultaneously reduce anxiety but also intensify feelings (alcohol, GHB, phenibut and other GABA-B agonists)
Makes sense why cops and soldiers use the "I felt threatened" excuse, it's actually true. Those escaped captives actually did terrify the IDF guys into shitting their pampers
Very telling that this poster acts like the human brain isn't plastic with different regions growing and shrinking with use or abuse.
The NASA experiments involving before and after brain imaging highlight just how dramatic these changes can be in the few months astronauts spend in space. Hell, a sedentary person taking up a sport and practicing daily within just a month will cause noticable changes in areas of the brain related to things like motor control.
I'm willing to bet rightwing culture, beliefs, and media consumption does a real number on parts of the brain related to processing fear. I wonder how much of what this research found can be attributed to nurture rather than nature. Take a sizeable sample of people then do before and after brain imaging while putting them through a few years of intensive right-wing indoctrination. For example prolonged isolation is already known to cause most people to become more than a bit paranoid and irritable.
Yeah no shit, "brave" is definitely a term I would use to describe the partisans facing certain death to resist fascism all the way to the gallows. Or the Red Army clinging on to Leningrad until the siege was broken. Or taking up arms against Americans with little to no formal military training in the jungles of Vietnam.
The wording implies that a small amygdala is a 'mutation' and 'atrophied', but a larger amygdala could equally as legitimately be described a 'mutation' and 'hypertrophied'.
Plus calling it the 'fear' organ is just silly, it's responsible for a million things.
My first riot I was flinching and ducking at the bang of gas canisters while the people around me stood tall and stone-faced, so if I were a dumbass eugenicist I could totally believe this
or maybe their amygdala is overgrown because their lack of empathy makes it harder to understand other people and predict their behavior, which is stressful