I apologise for writing a blogpost about a tweet, which can look a bit like over-analysis, but I was intrigued by a couple of things that writer Graham Linehan wrote last week.
Writers tend to the left because writers tend to have compassion. The nasty party has none so the BBC will never be just right for them.
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) February 7, 2014
Also, reality has a left-wing bias, and writers tend to deal with the real world.
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) February 7, 2014
He was responding to some complaints about bias on the BBC, and as Linehan has written some brilliant television comedy, his opinion is listened to.
Our minds naturally respond in a hostile way to views we find opposed to ours, which is why I highly recommend Jonathan Haidt’s The Righteous Mind to anyone who strongly agrees, or disagrees, with Linehan’s statement (and Linehan himself, if he’s reading).
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