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This is sub-facebook quality.
Or you could’ve went with a line he actually said: “I love the poorly educated.”
Ironically, it’s “could have gone with.”
83% of Lemmy agree? And not 100%?
I started figuring that Lemmy is starting to get some MAGA folks when the past few days, we’ve been seeing some “both sides are the same” posts hitting feeds.
But damn…
The downvote button isn’t a “disagree” button. Maybe those people just didn’t find it funny, or they found it low effort.
If it makes you feel any better, as far as I can see from kbin (where votes are transparent) - I’m the only one who downvoted this post, and I did that because ableism is never ok, even if it is aimed at someone abhorrent.
It shouldn’t, because bigotry is bigotry, but generally people don’t seem to give a shit about ableism, so it probably will… ¯\(ツ)/¯
I understood them to not so much mean stupid in the clinical sort of sense, but instead the proudly ignorant sort of stupid. I’ve met a ton of conservatives and most of trump supporting type is in a bubble and actively avoids learning anything that they don’t agree with. They form an opinion and then only look for supporting evidence. Critical thinkers instead look for information from various sources and then form an opinion based on the varied evidence. People who still support trump are not critical thinkers, or they know who he is and like that he attacks and blames the people that they want getting attacked and blamed. There’s a reason he attracts hate groups, casual racists, and evangelicals. These people are also ignorant, but also pretty cunning about it.
But memes are bad at nuance, so they just said “stupid” as a general shorthand. At least that’s what my take is.
man, 300 million (half ignorant) people decide the fate of the world. its getting ridiculous …
Is that why he loves himself?
Conflating harmful actions with lack of intelligence does everyone a disservice. To suggest that “stupidity” that is what makes people act badly undermines any real accountability. The causes of problematic behavior rarely have anything to do with mental acuity, and we can’t properly address harmful behavior while being so reductive about its causes. Carelessness, bias, hatred, greed, closed-mindedness, indifference – these are the traits that lead to oppression. Our intelligence is not the issue so much as our sense of compassion and justice.
A person can be unintelligent and still know right from wrong. There are people with cognitive disabilities who I respect a thousand times more than those who are supposedly more abled. They have stronger principles, seek to better themselves, and are committed to being good people. They are just capable of being sensitive and caring as everyone else. To imply that they aren’t is outrageous.Well he’s definitely playing to his base.
And rich.
