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One of the things I learned in sociology class in a Department of Defense high school in the 80s was educated people are easier to propagandize.
I’d go look look it up in Safari and come back to this message with links but whatever this client app is on iOS with the mouse icon will not save the state of my work and I’ll never find this conversation again .
I think you're talking about the effect of intelligent people being more prone to motivated reasoning
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Yep. because they have a false sense of what they know.
Esp the people who are educated at BA level... when you get to MA/PhD it gets different, but you can't expect most folks to ever attain that level of education. Because it's only in graduate work that you realize how little any of us really knows and how much work (a lifetime) it takes to be an expert of a very tiny slice of the world.
Oh no, a dude was a product of his time, but as society got better he changed with society for the better, THE HORROR.
Nonono, don't settle for the lesser evil... Cthulhu 2024.
Counterpoint, not celebrating when someone changes for the better encourages shitty people to just STAY shitty people, and I could argue THAT is why we end up having to vote for lesser evils. You have to be 100% on the right side of history right from the moment you are born or else fuck you for the rest of time I guess
Is he not restoring the LGBTQ protections that the previous president removed? Which part of that is doubling down on him being wrong in the past? Attacking everyone who doesnt fully agree with you doesnt change ANYONES minds, and in fact makes you more enemies, thus putting whichever cause you fight for further behind
I don't know for sure, but I think maybe they are downvoting you because pointing out that sort of thing about Biden right now when there's a very good possibility Trump could win is not very helpful.
I don't have your crystal ball, so I'd rather chances not be taken at the moment.
It's probably true, in some contexts.
If you are a foreign government? Or internal powers wanting to enact an authoritarian and religious regime that hurts the peoples it's trying to convince? Then probably not. Educated people are going to be harder to turn against their own interests.
A DoD high school?