"Researchers at the Yale Cultural Cognition Project showed people a video of protesters clustered around the entrance to a building and asked them to decide whether the protesters were illegally blocking the entrance.
"The first twist is that they showed two protest videos — one involving a military recruiter, the other an abortion clinic — and found that it didn’t matter which video you saw as much as whether your politics agreed with the protesters. The second twist is that these were actually the same underlying video. Only the subtitles of what was happening had been altered."
"The first twist is that they showed two protest videos — one involving a military recruiter, the other an abortion clinic — and found that it didn’t matter which video you saw as much as whether your politics agreed with the protesters. The second twist is that these were actually the same underlying video. Only the subtitles of what was happening had been altered."