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In reply to the discussion: Proof the Trump effect is in full effect: Friend of a former student tells historian to STFU (me) [View all]zipplewrath
(16,646 posts)You realize the kid doesn't know what "quisling" means, and won't look it up either. Truth is, he probably won't even get that far down before he stops reading.
That speaks to a point I have yet to find a way to express. I don't understand this current tendency for people to wear their ignorance like a badge of honor. It's the whole "you get to have your own opinion, but not your own facts" problem. If I hear "I'm not a scientist but..." one more time I'm gonna go postal. I strive to understand my opponents point, even when I disagree. But more and more I find my political opponents basically HAVE no point, just a position, and one they cannot begin to "defend" in any other manner than "because". And they have no intellectual "shame" in that at all. To a great degree they express it with pride.