Jan Daalder

Het college doet veel moeite om het beeld te schetsen dat het goed gaat met de Amsterdamse financiën. Recente ontwikkelingen laten echter een grote tegenstrijdigheid zien. Hoge uitgaven, oplopende schulden, betalingsachterstanden, het AEB. Amsterdam verdient beter.

Exactly

Yes. This graphic is rapidly becoming the most misused and misunderstood image in all of modern history. Despite what its spreaders claim, it doesn’t show that liberals care *less* about those close to them than animals strangers etc. It simply shows that they tend to *also* care about further away things AS WELL - if you read the original study, you’ll see the (admittedly idiotic) color grading was meant to show only the distribution of EDGES of the two groups’ moral circles, NOT the distribution of their FOCUS. And frankly, anyone with an iota of reason could figure that out if they actually sat down and thought about it… there’s basically no one on earth who truly cares about a total stranger or rock or insect etc MORE than their friends, which is what this chart would imply if interpreted this way. Not even crazy ass wokies have such an inverted moral circle, coz they too care about their “tribe” (ie whatever intersectional micro culture they champion) above others, much like everyone else does. It’s classic culture wars propaganda, but this time, it’s right wing brains who turn to mush upon seeing it, because confirmation bias. Catnip for conservatives.