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The Double Blind Grievance Problem

It comes to roost after mass violence events, and many other times too.

Ted Bauer
4 min readMar 28, 2023

So, yesterday we have this horrible Nashville shooting incident where six people die — three children, three adults. We instantly get into our various ideological camps:

  • This is about how we treat trans youth and adults.
  • This is about hatred of Christians.
  • This is about guns.
  • This is about confused sexuality.
  • This is about lack of law enforcement response time.
  • This is about ___________, based on where you fall in the whole ecosystem.

Weirdly, we almost never hear people go directly to “This is about the parents.” Hmmm. Anyway.

As I’m trying to parse out different takes, I come to this on YouTube, from Chris Cuomo’s new-ish show:

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Ted Bauer
Ted Bauer

Written by Ted Bauer

I write about a lot of different topics, from work to masculinity to relationships and social dynamics, I.e. modern friendship. Pleasure to be here.

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