• atopi@piefed.blahaj.zone
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    22 hours ago

    if they’re wearing the red hat then I know they support fascism.

    That is a choice, not something they are born with; a choice that is associated with fascism

    Other than that, yeah, you are right

    • wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz
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      12 hours ago

      Yes but it’s still a visual queue from which we can make an inference. It still requires an intuition which connects a representation to its meaning.

      Maybe it wasn’t the most suitable example for this context for the reason you point out, but the perceptive/cognitive phenomena at play are the same in both situations from the viewer’s perspective