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When I disagree with someone, I do not necessarily think they're stupid. That's a needlessly polarizing mindset.
by dnissley 4y ago
When I disagree with someone, I do not necessarily think they're stupid. That's a needlessly polarizing mindset.
- xcambar 4y agoYou're a rare person, in 2022.
- gernb 4y agoMaybe you could be come one too https://www.amazon.com/Never-Thought-That-Way-Conversations/dp/1637740328 https://www.amazon.com/Never-Thought-That-Way-Conversations/...
- braingenious 4y agoWhat sort of decisions or behavior would lead you to believe that somebody is stupid?
- docandrew 4y agoJust because somebody does something different than us doesn’t mean they are stupid, how ridiculous and reductive is that? They might just be evil.
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- blowski 4y agoIs it necessary to believe anyone is "stupid" as a personality? I just disagree with people's opinions on certain things. And if I frequently disagree with someone enough, then I just quietly stop paying any attention to what they say.
- braingenious 4y agoHow is judging people’s way of thinking as being a binary between “necessary” and “unnecessary” not just calling people “stupid” or “not stupid” the same thing just using different words?
- themitigating 4y agoI'll bite - the ability to explain why you think a certain way or did something (i.e. when you ask a child why they threw a glass they'll say "I don't know" - the speed at which you learn/process new information - the ability to understand your emotions and the level of control you have over them - your willing to engage in debate - how inquisitive you are
- fragmede 4y agoIn addition to "I don't know" is "I messed up". Everyone does stupid things occasionally. Stupid people double down on their stupidity once they realize what happened instead of owning up to it.
- brazzledazzle 4y agoThere's some nuance there though. Doubling down is (almost) always a stupid move but it isn't always stupid people that do it. It's rooted in insecurity which is independent of intelligence.
- lost_tourist 4y agoSomeone who claims to hold a basic concept of something as straight forward as "free speech absolutist" and doesn't see the logical incoherence of proceeding to ban reporters and others who publish and aggregate publicly available information (@elonjet).
- braingenious 4y agoI personally agree with this. Further, I think “somebody that spends an extraordinary amount of money to become admin on a forum (one of the worst jobs on earth)” qualifies as “a stupid person” well before “being incredibly, laughably, hilariously inept at being a forum admin” even gets factored into the “How stupid can a person be?” equation.
- molszanski 4y agostupid doesn't end a conversation. It starts it. Ok, someone thinking is different (stupid). But how exactly do they think? Why? What drives? Where does the break or wrong start?
- 123pie123 4y agocorrect - I've learnt different perspectives and expanded my way of thinking and also learnt many many people do not bother with thinking, and just throw crap out - due to their immediate emotions
- kyleyeats 4y agoIf you don't hate stupid people, how do you know that you're smart?
- aussiesnack 4y agoPerhaps not your intent, but you have hit on the entire social media mindset, distilled. TV debate long ago decided that every complex human concern can be profitably reduced to a crass binary which can be argued about in front of a camera for the audience's thumbs up or down. Social media democratised this decerebrate approach. A thumbs up or down from your tribe. Mastodon, Post.news et al only replicate the Twitter model. It doesn't matter which platform PG, or anyone else, is on. They're all worthless distraction. Fiddling while Rome burns etc.
- kyleyeats 4y agoYou can tell who's actually discussing a person's intelligence and who's status-signaling how smurt they are because only one group gets terribly offended when you disagree.
- cyberphobe 4y agoI don't think people are calling Elon Musk stupid because they disagree with him.
- talkingtab 4y agoWhen I think someone is stupid, I don't necessarily disagree with them. That's a needlessly polarizing mindset.
- dnissley 4y agoAlso true! Stopped clocks, etc.