The app for independent voices
Why were so many critics of Charlie Kirk simply misinformed about what he said and wrote?
In a Wall Street Journal column, Barton Swaim cites evidence that whereas American conservatives generally understand the arguments that liberals make, liberals don’t understand conservatives (probably because they aren’t listening).
Whereas conservatives are obliged to know what their correlatives on the left say and write— so pervasive are their ideas and assumptions in our cultural institutions— liberals and progressives feel no corresponding need to know the opinions of people on the right.
When you’re in an argument, and the other fellow says, “You don’t know what you’re talking about,” that’s insulting. But if he says, “You don’t know what I’m talking about,” the debate is going nowhere fast.