I wrote in a past blog post about a hilarious event that was captured on video some 10-or-so years ago, in the heyday of the "defund the police" and "abolish the police" protests in the United States.
In one of these "abolish the police" protests some man stopped his car near some people who were protesting and started yelling something angrily at them. After a while of doing so he exited the car and started approaching them, still yelling and gesturing angrily. I don't remember what exactly he was saying, but what was the absolute gem and peak of hilarity was the reaction of several of the protestors, most particularly one of the women who said with a very clearly worried and panicky expression and tone of voice "call 911!"
It was quite clear from the context, her demeanor, her facial expression and her voice that she was being serious, ie. she was in a state of panic to some degree and instinctively asked people to "call 911!" because she was scared of the aggressive man who was ostensibly going to attack them. It was quite clear that she was making a genuine plea.
The funny thing is the absolute cognitive dissonance, the doublethink, that was clearly happening in her head: Her brain clearly did not, at least in that moment, make the connection that the "police" that she was at that very time demanding to be abolished, is the exact same "police" that the 911 dispatcher would send in such a situation. It was relatively clear that at some cognitive level she did not think of "the police" that she wanted to abolish, and "the police" that's called in a dangerous emergency situation, to be the one and same group. She wanted "the police" to be abolished, defunded, terminated as an institution... but instinctively wanted the help of "the police" when she felt in danger. Both notions held at the same time, regardless of the contradiction.
I'm quite certain that if she had later been pointed out this contradiction, she would have just come up with excuses and rationalizations, or just refused to answer.
There are, of course, many other examples. At the moment of writing this, the American far-leftist activists are once again engaging in massive protests for the millionth time, with all the old tired rhetoric and fear-mongering. More particularly, they are claiming that federal officers, ICE in particular, are "the gestapo" who are criminally and unlawfully kidnapping people, both non-citizens and citizens, in unmarked vans to be taken who knows where, and in fact they are even shooting and murdering people on the streets for merely peacefully protesting.
Yet, these exact same people who are claiming (and probably at some level even believing) all of this... are out there every day shouting at, taunting, blocking and even throwing things at and assaulting federal agents. Those very same federal agents who, according to the leftists' own narrative are murdering and kidnapping people.
I'm quite certain that the majority of them actually believe the narrative. However, their actions show that they also know, at some level, that that very narrative is not true. After all, if they believed it to be true, they would be too scared to go out there to taunt and interfere with this "gestapo" that's murdering people on the streets. So they genuinely believe two completely opposite things at the same time, with zero realization of the contradiction. They genuinely believe that the federal agents are murdering and kidnapping people... and at the same time also not believing it because they don't have any qualms in going there to taunt them.
Of course it's not merely current events that leftists have contradictory doublethink positions about.
For example, most leftists are anti-capitalists. They think that "capitalists" and "CEOs" and "company owners" exploit the workers who do long days doing all the hard work for pitiable salaries. Many of these leftists absolutely hate the typical 9-to-5 job and think that it's exploitative and degrading and detrimental to one's well-being and mental and physical health, all for pitiable salaries that barely allows you to survive.
Yet, tell any of these people the opinion that "women would be happier as stay-at-home moms where the husband is the breadwinner, rather than slaving themselves at some soulless corporation for an empty career", and they will gasp in horror and consider you a monster, a misogynist and a fascist.
This is yet again a perfect example of double-think: They genuinely believe two polar opposites at the same time, without realizing the contradiction.
Indeed, they themselves agree and state that working some 9-to-5 job at some soulless corporation is exploitative, stressful and inhumane... while at the same time being horrified at the opinion that women would be happier if they would not have to go every day to a 9-to-5 job at some soulless corporation and would instead have all the free time in the world staying at home while the husband goes to work. They hold both opinions at the same time, with zero self-awareness, zero cognition of the contradiction. (And, of course, if this is very specifically pointed out to them, they will make up excuses and move goalposts and engage in whataboutism, rather than revise their opinions to be less contradictory.)
Far-leftist trans activists furiously maintain that there are literally no differences between men and women, that they are completely identical (and that science absolutely 100% proves it!) and that there's absolutely nothing wrong with a man or boy doing stereotypically female things, or a woman or girl doing stereotypically male things, and that gender is fluid and may constantly change, that you can be "80% male" today and "20% male" tomorrow, and that doesn't define you, and nobody has the right to assume your sex nor gender, nor is it anything that's fixed.
At the same time these exact same people, when they see a small boy showing even a tiny bit of mild curiosity towards a doll or a girl's dress, even for five seconds, will immediately and furiously declare that he's a girl, and fight tooth and nail for this "diagnosis" of theirs to the end of time. Suddenly all that "it's completely normal for a boy to be interested in girlish things and vice-versa" and "nobody can define your gender" goes out the window, and they furiously and strongly assert the boy's new gender and will fight tooth and nail to make it true by force if needed.
And they do, indeed, maintain these two contradictory positions at the same time, without letting the contradiction bother them.
Likewise, in a similar vein, they aggressively assert that there are literally no differences between men and women (science proves it!), that there are literally no things that men are better at as women... yet at the same time they also aggressively want men who declare themselves as "trans" to be able to compete in women's sports. The question arises: If there's indeed literally no difference between men and women and they are absolutely identical, then why does it matter if these "trans" men are restricted to participate in men's sports? Shouldn't be all the same, and it shouldn't matter where they compete?
Indeed, they think both things at the same time, ie that there are no differences and there are differences.
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