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Lions, and tigers, and bears! Oh, my!

if you like something, people will make fun of you because you have admitted to experiencing a sincere emotion. this makes people defensive about what they like.

if you don’t like something, people will take your opinion personally and attack you. this makes people feel like they have to have a very good reason to dislike something.

people reach for reasons to like vs dislike things that are serious and often politically relevant so they can defend themselves from other opinion-havers.

these positions mutually reinforce each other until it is assumed that any declaration of liking or disliking something is both personally and politically relevant by default.