Like, I've seen many smart people that are even, in theory, supporting of socialism and against imperialism who are well aware that there is a propaganda machine in the US and the west, who when it comes to anything about AES/past socialist states, they will just regurgitate state department propaganda without question.

Like, even if you bring up, for example, Xinjiang, and how virtually all evidence comes from some really bad research by a guy who clearly has an agenda, they will say something along the lines of "maybe that's true, but that doesn't disprove there's a genocide there". Which... is not how burden of proof works. Mind you, these are also people who clearly know about shifting of the burden of proof when it comes to climate change or evolution, but here? Then it's every logical fallacy, no critical thinking.

So what is it about these things that remove critical thinking from otherwise smart people?

  • Zuzak [fae/faer, she/her]
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    3 years ago

    Here's a question for you guys: is it necessary that every single person on this planet expresses every single opinion that they have on every single thing that occurs, all at the same time? Is that, is that, necessary? Or to ask it a slightly different way, can anyone shut the fuck up, can any, any one, any single one, can anyone, shut the fuck up about, anything, any single thing, can any single person shut the fuck up about any single thing for, an hour?

    • Bo Burnham

    Why do you rich fucking white people insist on seeing every socio-political conflict through the myopic lens of your own self-actualization?

    • Socko