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This is the same woman who probably taught your SO not to take candy from strangers. I don't think you need to be engaged in social media from a young age to tu
by dfxm12 3y ago
This is the same woman who probably taught your SO not to take candy from strangers. I don't think you need to be engaged in social media from a young age to tune your BS detector.
On this specific video, which demonizes democrats as scary satanists, do keep in mind that conservatives have learned to focus on fear based messaging: https://slate.com/technology/2015/10/conservative-politicians-campaign-on-fear-and-it-works.html https://slate.com/technology/2015/10/conservative-politician...
Also on that note, I do think education (especially humanities and social science) plays a role in being able to tell the difference between something being discussed in good faith and complete hokum, so it shouldn't come as a surprise that conservatives are trying to lower the quality of education Americans get as well: https://newrepublic.com/article/167375/republican-plan-devastate-public-education-america https://newrepublic.com/article/167375/republican-plan-devas...
This is part of a cycle that keeps Americans undereducated to make it easier to scare them into voting R.
- jncfhnb 3y ago> This is the same woman who probably taught your SO not to take candy from strangers. I don't think you need to be engaged in social media from a young age to tune your BS detector. I don’t feel like repeating a specific advice not to take candy from strangers indicates any critical reasoning personally
- ryanklee 3y agoWhy not? It's dumb advice that doesn't stand up to critical scrutiny.
- SkyMarshal 3y ago> so it shouldn't come as a surprise that conservatives are trying to lower the quality of education Americans get as well Funny, it wasn't long ago that conservatives were accusing liberals of the same thing: https://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/ https://deliberatedumbingdown.com/ddd/ Maybe it's just something people in power converge towards, as a function of preserving their power, regardless where they are on the political spectrum.