Chuds don’t listen. I totally agree we shouldn’t mock them for being uneducated or dumb, that’s not even their issue. It’s willful ignorance. People aren’t anti vax or climate change deniers because it wasn’t taught in school. They just choose to ignore evidence, and arguments, and reason.
Another prominent example, abortion. They aren’t “pro life” because of some educational misunderstanding. They’ve heard pro choice arguments. That its a bodily autonomy issue, we don’t force corpses to give up their organs, etc. That messaging has been out forever. They just choose the emotional “reason” of “b-but its a baaby”. They dismiss any education on a fetus, in fact, not being a baby. (do you think my mom is actually going to give a shit if I tell her the machine that you “hear” the heartbeat with just makes that noise up from the electrical pulses? That the “heart” isn’t actually pumping blood around as young as they claim a “heartbeat” is detectable in? No, she fucking won’t.) They don’t care and idk how to make them care.
Yeah, I mock libs for their illiteracy, but its because I know it comes from intullectual laziness and not from some inherent inferiority. They could do better, they actively choose NOT to.
Stereotypes literally exist because people are too lazy to judge people as individuals and want an easy way to write someone they don’t like off and flatter themselves at the same time.
War and exploitation are a lazy way to get resources. Instead of bringing something valuable to the table, all they offer is “or cracker smash you!”
Why aren’t businesses hiring anymore? Because thanks to AI, they don’t need to. Who cares if a whole section of the infrastructure is being taken out on a whim. Porky wants free labor and feels entitled to it.
People aren’t anti vax or climate change deniers because it wasn’t taught in school. They just choose to ignore evidence, and arguments, and reason.
This is somewhat uncharitable because this conspiratorial thinking is the result of an understandable lack of trust in our institutions. For example, a lot of Black folk initially didn’t want to get the vaccine because the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” experiment is still in living memory.
They just choose the emotional “reason” of “b-but its a baaby”. They dismiss any education on a fetus, in fact, not being a baby.
This is a blatant straw-man. The question “When does human life begin?” is inherently philosophical in nature. We may, as educated persons, reasonably defer to science for an answer. This isn’t the same, however, as science answering the question. Further, religious people who believe human beings have souls are unlikely to defer to science. The notion of a soul is outside the purview of science, and so presenting scientific facts to them will be ineffective. (For more, see the mind-body problem in the history of philosophy.)
The point here is not to say that they have a good argument to enforce pro-life on the rest of us. Why should religious belief in human souls constrain the conduct of non-believers? Rather, my point is that you have completely misrepresenting the opposing view in order to preach to the choir.
Chuds don’t listen. I totally agree we shouldn’t mock them for being uneducated or dumb, that’s not even their issue. It’s willful ignorance. People aren’t anti vax or climate change deniers because it wasn’t taught in school. They just choose to ignore evidence, and arguments, and reason.
Another prominent example, abortion. They aren’t “pro life” because of some educational misunderstanding. They’ve heard pro choice arguments. That its a bodily autonomy issue, we don’t force corpses to give up their organs, etc. That messaging has been out forever. They just choose the emotional “reason” of “b-but its a baaby”. They dismiss any education on a fetus, in fact, not being a baby. (do you think my mom is actually going to give a shit if I tell her the machine that you “hear” the heartbeat with just makes that noise up from the electrical pulses? That the “heart” isn’t actually pumping blood around as young as they claim a “heartbeat” is detectable in? No, she fucking won’t.) They don’t care and idk how to make them care.
Yeah, I mock libs for their illiteracy, but its because I know it comes from intullectual laziness and not from some inherent inferiority. They could do better, they actively choose NOT to.
CHUDs are some of the laziest people I know.
Stereotypes literally exist because people are too lazy to judge people as individuals and want an easy way to write someone they don’t like off and flatter themselves at the same time.
War and exploitation are a lazy way to get resources. Instead of bringing something valuable to the table, all they offer is “or cracker smash you!”
Why aren’t businesses hiring anymore? Because thanks to AI, they don’t need to. Who cares if a whole section of the infrastructure is being taken out on a whim. Porky wants free labor and feels entitled to it.
We don’t need to make them care. We need to defeat them.
This is somewhat uncharitable because this conspiratorial thinking is the result of an understandable lack of trust in our institutions. For example, a lot of Black folk initially didn’t want to get the vaccine because the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” experiment is still in living memory.
This is a blatant straw-man. The question “When does human life begin?” is inherently philosophical in nature. We may, as educated persons, reasonably defer to science for an answer. This isn’t the same, however, as science answering the question. Further, religious people who believe human beings have souls are unlikely to defer to science. The notion of a soul is outside the purview of science, and so presenting scientific facts to them will be ineffective. (For more, see the mind-body problem in the history of philosophy.)
The point here is not to say that they have a good argument to enforce pro-life on the rest of us. Why should religious belief in human souls constrain the conduct of non-believers? Rather, my point is that you have completely misrepresenting the opposing view in order to preach to the choir.
This is probably one of the best comments I’ve seen on here. Sums up something I’ve been trying to express for a while.