Just so you know, confirmation bias is a tool of survival, it can be both good and bad depending on what you do with it.
I've experienced first hand that, unchecked, confirmation biases will lead you inevitably toward a form of reactionnarism. Now, this doesn't mean that you don't have to use it. In fact just like it can be usefull for survival, confirmation biases are also usefull politically when you need to check an information rapidly (this is a tool I uses quite often here).
Now, the trick is to UNDERSTAND that we are using it and CONTROL it. This comes only after being deeply aware of ourselves and learning how we function and what informations we tend to be susceptible of eating without attention.
For example, I'm highly susceptible to emotionnal reactionnarism. Mainly because I can't erase completely the way I have constructed my thinking process in the past. So I keep that in check, always.
As for information like this one (trusting a marxist more than a french man), it all comes down to a simple calculus of the viability of the information.
I know from experience that people on the far right spectrum will give me little to no viable informations, so in the balance, if I compare them to a marxist, even in the US, I have a lot more chances to agree with the marxist, so the result will be me trusting the US marxist far more than the french bigot.
It's not about tribalism, it's about the experience of oneself
I've experienced first hand that, unchecked, confirmation biases will lead you inevitably toward a form of reactionnarism. Now, this doesn't mean that you don't have to use it. In fact just like it can be usefull for survival, confirmation biases are also usefull politically when you need to check an information rapidly (this is a tool I uses quite often here).
Now, the trick is to UNDERSTAND that we are using it and CONTROL it. This comes only after being deeply aware of ourselves and learning how we function and what informations we tend to be susceptible of eating without attention.
For example, I'm highly susceptible to emotionnal reactionnarism. Mainly because I can't erase completely the way I have constructed my thinking process in the past. So I keep that in check, always.
As for information like this one (trusting a marxist more than a french man), it all comes down to a simple calculus of the viability of the information.
I know from experience that people on the far right spectrum will give me little to no viable informations, so in the balance, if I compare them to a marxist, even in the US, I have a lot more chances to agree with the marxist, so the result will be me trusting the US marxist far more than the french bigot.
It's not about tribalism, it's about the experience of oneself


