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Why social change is so excruciatingly difficult

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Liberals and the System Justification Effect

I think it's a social psychological one to something that is just outside of the bounds of how we've come to understand what the status quo is. And then when young people come up with new gender schemes and really complicated 14 by 14 matrix of gender bisexual orientation, identification, things, for people a certain age and older,. It's a very kind of shocking experience to work through that. For exactly the same reason, psychologically, that conservatives can't countenance the idea of whites not being a majority in the United States in the next decade or two.

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