Black-and-white thinking is characteristic of the right wing. You can look at any topic and see it with them: COVID, vaccines, climate change, immigration, welfare, the economy, etc. They always frame things as either all bad or not bad at all, and can't handle shades of grey or multidimensional analysis. They will seize on Bill Gates's statement to claim climate change is not a problem.

[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

The left isn't immune: you see similar framing with genetic engineering and nuclear power generation. Rejection of nuance is systemically fertilized in widely consumed right-wing media in a way that the current left-wing media doesn't, but the underlying psychological susceptibility is common to all humans and not particular to ideology.

Any improvement needs to happen at the system level, not by villianizing individuals as "right wing, can't handle shades of grey".