{"id":6124,"date":"2018-02-03T11:20:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-03T19:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/?p=6124"},"modified":"2020-10-18T11:43:46","modified_gmt":"2020-10-18T18:43:46","slug":"link-and-comments-hollywood-and-liberals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2018\/02\/03\/link-and-comments-hollywood-and-liberals\/","title":{"rendered":"Link and Comments: Hollywood and Liberals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/01\/27\/opinion\/sunday\/hollywood-liberal.html\">Neil Gross, Why Is Hollywood So Liberal?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Best guess:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nThere is, however, a third explanation worth pondering: that the emotional requirements of acting are conducive to progressive politics. \u201cThe overwhelmingly liberal orientation of actors,\u201d Professor Ross has written, \u201ccan be partially understood as a byproduct of the demands of their craft. Playing a variety of characters, many of whom they did not necessarily like, fostered a sense of empathy and ability to understand issues and people outside their personal experience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Ross suggests that empathy develops as actors gain experience on the job, but we can also speculate that empathetic people are more likely to become actors. Either way, is there any evidence that empathy correlates with liberal ideology?<\/p>\n<p>Surveys show that liberals see themselves, anyway, as more empathetic and kindhearted than conservatives, a self-conception reinforced by political rhetoric. But in a recent paper, the psychologist Adam Waytz and his colleagues report a more nuanced finding: The main thing distinguishing liberals and conservatives in this regard isn\u2019t how empathetic they are overall; rather, the key difference is how much empathy they feel for specific groups. Where conservatives empathize foremost with family members and country, liberals extend the bounds of empathy to include friends, the socially disadvantaged and citizens of the world, to whom they\u2019d like government to lend a hand.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The circle of empathy is larger for liberals than for conservatives. Or rather, those for whom the circle of empathy expands beyond local family and tribe become characterized as liberals. Those for whom life is a zero-sum game between us and the world become characterized as conservatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NYT: Neil Gross, Why Is Hollywood So Liberal? Best guess: There is, however, a third explanation worth pondering: that the emotional requirements of acting are conducive to progressive politics. \u201cThe overwhelmingly liberal orientation of actors,\u201d Professor Ross has written, \u201ccan &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/2018\/02\/03\/link-and-comments-hollywood-and-liberals\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservative-resistance","category-social-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6125,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6124\/revisions\/6125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.markrkelly.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}