The miraculously invulnerable

[_nicolai_]

So,
right-wing Queers;
right-wing Transgender people;
right-wing Black people;
right-wing Asian people;

What makes them all think it won't happen to them when the fascists come?

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[hairyears]

If your question is more than merely rhetorical, I would guess that that the answers are the besetting errors of the middle-class right-winger mind set:

• It'll never happen to me;
• I identify with the values of the overclass and I am one of the Elect; therefore, it definitely won't happen to me;
• I'm not one of them, the smelly undeserving underclass who are a threat to me - us - the deserving and productive citizens.

I an sure that LessWrong have a better list, and that it will be rigorously supported by evidence and elegantly argued.

Of all the common errors in our thinking, I believe that "It'll never happen to me" is the most dangerous, and the most intractable: the other two are products of skilful flattery by propaganda and what propaganda can achieve, propaganda can undo.

Note that I say 'propaganda', not the use of facts and reasoned argument: you will only change that kind of mind by skilful social manipulation and appeals to the emotions.

But "It'll never happen to me" persists in the face of the harshest wake-up call imaginable: people have persisted in a state of denial and belief that "It's a mistake and it'll all be sorted out", all the way through their own imprisonment and execution.