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Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by ilrwbwrkhv on Saturday August 05, 2023 @11:27AM (#37012971)
Groups which consider themselves as very intellectual can commit the worst atrocities. Just look at communists.
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Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by j45 on Saturday August 05, 2023 @11:36AM (#37013062)
It has little to do with education or intellect.

The disease of righteousness is available to all.

Being able to reflect and examine one’s own thoughts and beliefs is harder than fitting in and being righteous.

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Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by inglor_cz on Saturday August 05, 2023 @12:30PM (#37013661)
Smarter people are better at rationalizing away their bad behavior, though.

You need certain cognitive capacity in order to engage in sophistry.

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Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by j45 on Saturday August 05, 2023 @07:59PM (#37017494)
Fair, there's plenty of extremely cognitive and smart "uneducated by higher education" people.

I don't know if that makes it less worse, or worse.

Enabling righteousness, where others are wrong, or missing the details, or thinking there can't be any understanding in something they don't understand or disagree with is a big problem.

Lots of people whack others over the head to externally validate their beliefs. I think Evangelism might even fall under that category by some definitions, no offence.

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Re:They Didn’t Ask to Go Viral. Posting on Social Media With... by watwut on Saturday August 05, 2023 @01:23PM (#37014293)
Communists were quite anti-intellectual. Literally against intelligentsia
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