General Discussion
Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOpinion: How dumb can a nation get and still survive?
This is a great editorial that was discussed on at least three MSNBC shows yesterday
Link to tweet
How did we become, in such alarming measure, so dumb? Why is the news dominated by ridiculous controversies that should not be controversial at all? When did so many of our fellow citizens become full-blown nihilists who deny even the concept of objective reality? And how must this look to the rest of the world?....
Conservatives in state legislatures across the country are pushing legislation to halt the teaching of critical race theory in public schools. I put the term in quotes because genuine critical race theory, a dry and esoteric set of ideas debated in obscure academic journals, is not actually being taught in those schools at all. Whats being taught instead and squelched is American history, which happens to include slavery, Jim Crow repression and structural racism.
I get it. The GOP has become the party of White racial grievance, and this battle against an imaginary enemy stirs the base. But the whole charade involves Republican officials many of them educated at the nations top schools betting that their constituents are too dumb to know theyre being lied to. So far, the bet is paying off.
And then, of course, theres the whole stolen election farce, which led to the tragedy of Jan. 6. Every recount, every court case, every verifiable fact proves that Joe Biden fairly defeated Donald Trump. Yet a sizeable portion of the American electorate either cant do basic arithmetic or doesnt believe that one plus one always equals two.
How dumb can a nation get and still survive? Idiotically, we seem determined to find out.
I love this discussion of this editorial
Link to tweet
moondust
(19,961 posts)Including me.
What happens to children who grow up learning one thing at school only to go home to parents who claim the opposite is true? Who walk down the street wearing a mask with their parent only to hear "protestors" calling the parent a Nazi?
K/R
Hekate
(90,562 posts)scarytomcat
(1,706 posts)stupid is spreading
NewHendoLib
(60,006 posts)hibbing
(10,095 posts)Celerity
(43,127 posts)triron
(21,984 posts)brush
(53,743 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(144,939 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)triron
(21,984 posts)The IQ test is a piece of crap imo.
Elessar Zappa
(13,911 posts)First of all, IQ tests are highly biased in favor of people who are raised with resources, proper nutrition, etc. so wealthy countries will always score higher than poor countries. But in any case, plenty of intelligent people believe and peddle disinformation.
Stuart G
(38,414 posts)....Politics is a variation of the above...It goes with the flow.....You got all types, and all kinds of history...............
...................SOME HISTORY IS STILL A MYSTERY...
One example: Lincoln was one of the few people that realized how bad the "Civil War" would be....
Many at the time thought it would be over in a few weeks or months..
..................President Lincoln knew how bad it would be..
Many other examples of utter ...."Stupidity in history"..You name them they are ....Glowing Tributes to Stupidity!!
One more example...: Stalin signing a non aggression pact with Hitler......When word got out that Hitler was accumulating troops at the Russian border, Stalin didn't believe the classified information from spies within the area around the area area around the German border...............Yes, Russian spies.!!
...........Stalin didn't believe that Hitler would ...break his word with an invasion...
.so he did nothing to prepare...for the invasion......Many millions of Russian lives were lost because of Stalin's trust in who?.................
.....................Adolph Hitler....