Handshake: The next partisan issue?

[Klaus]

I've observed a couple of discussions about shaking hands, and the gist of it is that a set of people, who seem to be more left-wing on average, attack the notion of handshakes: That is has always been unhygienic, that it is a useless custom, that it is nauseating, and how good it was that people didn't shake hands during COVID, and how much they hope that it will not get a comeback.

In two years, people who shake hands will be Nazis.

[Copper]

How else would you know that a person is unarmed?

[Jolly]

@klaus said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

I've observed a couple of discussions about shaking hands, and the gist of it is that a set of people, who seem to be more left-wing on average, attack the notion of handshakes: That is has always been unhygienic, that it is a useless custom, that it is nauseating, and how good it was that people didn't shake hands during COVID, and how much they hope that it will not get a comeback.

In two years, people who shake hands will be Nazis.

Sieg heil, muthafucka!

[George K]

It's being replaced by the "terrorist fist bump.

[LuFins Dad]

Seems pretty black and white to me…

I assume network technicians will have to stop calling the connection between communication ports a “handshake”.

[Axtremus]

Let’s do high fives instead.

[George K]

@axtremus said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Let’s do high fives instead.

Let's do "Jazzy Hands" too!

[Horace]

The degree of one’s disgust reaction is known to be genetically based. It’s one of our primary visceral reactions. Those with high disgust reactions are likely to be left leaning. I think there is some actual science behind this. I’ve always thought that the visceral aspect of TDS was in part based on this.

[Larry]

@horace said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

The degree of one’s disgust reaction is known to be genetically based. It’s one of our primary visceral reactions. Those with high disgust reactions are likely to be left leaning. I think there is some actual science behind this. I’ve always thought that the visceral aspect of TDS was in part based on this.

Also, let's remember that most leftists live in their mommy's basement, aren't sure what their genitals are for, so they've adjusted to never touching another human.

[jon-nyc]

@horace said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Those with high disgust reactions are likely to be left leaning.

Right leaning actually.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

@horace said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Those with high disgust reactions are likely to be left leaning.

Right leaning actually.

Oh, yeah. Now that you mention it, that's true.

Goes to the idea that mainstream leftism, which most American adults have at this point lived their lives through, is the new "conservatism", in that it is a long established cultural status quo, within which people find comfortable safety, and outside of which people find threat and disgust.

[jon-nyc]

Sanctity and purity resonate far more with conservatives too.

Jonathan Haidt did lots of work on this and published The Righteous Mind for a lay audience.

[Horace]

@jon-nyc said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Sanctity and purity resonate far more with conservatives too.

Jonathan Haidt did lots of work on this and published The Righteous Mind for a lay audience.

With race becoming religion, and with how race is fundamental to leftism, this may be in the process of a cultural reversal, within the context of our current political labels.

[Larry]

@jon-nyc said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Sanctity and purity resonate far more with conservatives too.

Jonathan Haidt did lots of work on this and published The Righteous Mind for a lay audience.

Hsidt's "specialty" is "the psychology of morality and moral emotions".

In other words, he's a moron.

[Horace]

Put Haidt's and McWhorter's ideas together, and you have a decent academic foundation for most of what I shoot from the hip about here on TNCR.

[Copper]

@horace said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

With race becoming religion

The various pet races will eventually learn to hate the left

Nobody really wants to be a pet

[Klaus]

@jon-nyc said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Sanctity and purity resonate far more with conservatives too.

Jonathan Haidt did lots of work on this and published The Righteous Mind for a lay audience.

So you are saying it all comes down to tribalism, which roughly correlates to distance from the "middle"?

I'm not sure. The view of other people as a source of illness etc. and especially the rejection of everything that is as engrained into Western culture as the handshake seems to be more of a "woke" left-wing thing.

[Klaus]

@larry said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

@jon-nyc said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Sanctity and purity resonate far more with conservatives too.

Jonathan Haidt did lots of work on this and published The Righteous Mind for a lay audience.

Hsidt's "specialty" is "the psychology of morality and moral emotions".

In other words, he's a moron.

Have you ever considered the possibility that people who are experts in areas you know nothing about are not necessarily morons?

[jon-nyc]

@klaus said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

@jon-nyc said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Sanctity and purity resonate far more with conservatives too.

Jonathan Haidt did lots of work on this and published The Righteous Mind for a lay audience.

So you are saying it all comes down to tribalism, which roughly correlates to distance from the "middle"?

I'm not sure. The view of other people as a source of illness etc. and especially the rejection of everything that is as engrained into Western culture as the handshake seems to be more of a "woke" left-wing thing.

This wasn’t a comment on the OP, rather an offshoot of a side comment that Horace made.

[Horace]

@klaus said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

@jon-nyc said in Handshake: The next partisan issue?:

Sanctity and purity resonate far more with conservatives too.

Jonathan Haidt did lots of work on this and published The Righteous Mind for a lay audience.

So you are saying it all comes down to tribalism, which roughly correlates to distance from the "middle"?

I'm not sure. The view of other people as a source of illness etc. and especially the rejection of everything that is as engrained into Western culture as the handshake seems to be more of a "woke" left-wing thing.

My comment was to tie political leaning to a part of one's psychology. The disgust reaction is something humans are known to vary on, and not by choice. The intensity of that reaction has been studied for its correlation with political leaning. I misremembered what the original findings were - I said it was correlated with left, while in fact it had been correlated with right - which prompted jon to correct me. Then I explained how in our current political environment, certain characteristics of the mainstream left should be appealing to those with high disgust reactions. I suspect this is one of them.

I sure did get a clear picture during COVID that people differ substantially in how scared they are of getting sick. I suspect that's another piece of psychology that might have a political valence.

The five factor model of personality has also received plenty of attention regarding how it relates to political leaning. Openness, Conscientiousness, etc. I'll never forget the Ezra Klein podcast interview with a psychologist who studied it, where they talked about all the best ways in which the liberal mind differs, while not mentioning any of the bad ones.