• DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
    16·
    3 months ago

    It’s sad how well this actually works on some people. So many of my liberal friends have adopted a blind “both sides bad” because of stuff like this. I don’t know why they struggle with the concept of critical support, but I haven’t been able to teach them successfully. Every time I think they get it, they roll back to a black and white “I just want to grill” view of things.

    • Sodium_nitride@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      12·
      3 months ago

      They don’t struggle with critical support. Lesser evilism and voting for the Democrats literally is their version of critical support. What they struggle with is contexualising events into a coherent world history.

      They can kind of do it for American politics, but unless they have been following world politics deeply (and looked at independent sources), their framework will be the one given to them by the imperialists, which is deliberately unscientific so as to breed nihilism.

      • DamarcusArt@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
        7·
        3 months ago

        I guess that is the core of the problem really. My liberal friends are not at all scientifically minded, so I might need to teach them the most basic forms of scientific thinking first.