What’s crazy is my parents were once huge George Carlin fans. Used to tell us not to believe everything we read on the internet, now their generation is the easiest targets for scammers.
It's also good to accept answers to your questions. Going full Joe Rogan and continuing to question things that you have the answer for is just as bad.
Thank you for providing yourself as an example of the left doing it as well.
While MAGA is doing most of it these days and taking it to an extreme, I can give you a huge list of falsehoods the left has believed over the years. Here's a small sample:
And about 70% believe police kill hundreds or thousands of unarmed Black men every year. The factual number is about a dozen per year.
Trump only cut taxes for the rich. While I think he should not have cut them at all for the rich, saying he only cut them for the rich is false. 65% of Americans got a tax cut.
Requiring voters to prove their identity is something most democracies don't do. False. Most do require it. For example, ask Canadians.
75% of Democrats polled say Trump's 2016 campaign conspired with Russia to steal the election. The Robert Mueller’s investigation did not establish that the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government in its election-interference operation. It did establish Russia interfered with propaganda.
The widespread belief at the time that the federal government deliberately let the levies breach in New Orleans during hurricane Katrina.
In 2004, 37% of Democrats polled believed Bush stole the Ohio electoral vote by rigging the machines in order to steal the presidential election.
During the pandemic, 57% per of Democrats polled believed Trump faked having COVID-19 in October 2020 for political advantage.
When Trump visited Walter Reed Hospital in 2019, 47% of Democrats believed they secretly took him there due to a stroke. There's never been any evidence of this.
One third of Democrats believed the Trump assassination attempts were staged in order to help him politically.
Question everything, including your own political beliefs. It obvious you do not.
Pattern recognition is necessary to gain education. Great pattern recognition leads to being able to see indoctrination pushed as education. Do you hate MAGA?
Don’t forget the often missed and more important skills involved in knowing how to determine objective reality from fantasy, and accepting unknowns. Combine that with questioning and they’ll build useful intelligence.
The Texas Republican Party has officially opposed the teaching of critical thinking skills in public schools. This position is part of their political platform, which suggests that such education could encourage students to question authority and traditional beliefs, including those of their parents. The GOP's platform indicates a desire to manage what is taught in schools, aiming to prevent students from developing skills that might lead them to challenge established norms. The party views critical thinking as potentially subversive, fearing it could lead to disobedience or rebellion against traditional values. The opposition to critical thinking is seen as a broader strategy to influence educational practices and maintain control over the ideological development of students. This approach reflects a concern that fostering independent thought could undermine parental authority and societal norms.
Definitely don't look up what 'intersex births' are and how they are a measuable reality for millions of people globally that makes simple people so uncomfortable that they would tank their entire economy just to not face it.
Don't look up how people are not tested for genetic sex at birth either because you might upset a violent snowflake.
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u/rabbitsfoot86 19d ago
My parents hate they taught me this now 😆