People keep blaming the rise of fascism on the books women are reading but you know what I think the real cause is?
Giving stupid people's opinions the same merit and consideration as the experts.
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i.e. Fox News and cronies
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Be very careful. Fascist leaders will agree with you 100%, but they may not say it out loud - at first
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Meanwhile, me and my copy of Monster by Sanyika Shakur
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But women are to blame for everything men do. (/s incase you mistake me for someone who actually believes this)
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For that, we can thank the Internet...🤮
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Fascism doesn’t rise because of books; it rises when expertise is ignored and every opinion is treated as equally valid, regardless of evidence or reasoning.
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- graendoll, anonymous person provides their (apparently not stupid) opinion to other people, suggesting they’re an expert, does not recognize their obtuse hypocrisy.
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"Women reading books are to blame for the rise of fascism" is the equivalent of a "look what you made me do" excuse by abusers.
Educated women not catering to (mostly) men's desires turns the men into Fascists?!? Perhaps those men were just disguised Fascists all along, now discarding their masks.
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Yep.
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Where do they keep blaming women and books they are reading? never seen any mention of it but in this post
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Absolutely pristine truth.
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THIS. Everyone has a right to an opinion. No one has a right to be listened to automatically just because they have said opinion.
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It's a counter-enlightenment: stop looking at facts, start believing what one is told to believe. We need a new Diderot.
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I think there IS merit in considering stupid people's opinions, because knowing why they believe stupid stuff helps us better understand how to make them not believe in stupid stuff someday.
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😂😂😂😂
Who are these experts you speak of?
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"TV puts everybody in those boxes, side-by-side. On one side, there's this certifiable lunatic who says the Holocaust never happened. And next to him is this noted, honored historian who knows all about the Holocaust. And now, there they sit, side-by-side, they look like equals!" Eddie Langston 2006
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If more poor Americans had access to free education and if learning wasn't so stigmatized, our uninformed young voters wouldn't have flocked to Trump so much, either.
More books. Listen to the experts!
That's why scientists are fleeing, too. Books can't hurt you. Ignorance is how they rob you.
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It's this: Propagandists intentionally spreading lies. Most ppl don't realize most media are Right Wing now.
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The Vast Reach of Right Wing Disinformation
In one of my previous essays, I explained how very much in denial most Americans are about the extent to which our nation is immersed in…
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It's going to take a long time to undo the sheer damage done to society by the podcast/DramaTuber hellscape.
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And the media again giving Trump unlimited air time when they know he’s lying. Journalism demands that they call out his lies, and yet they don’t. They normalize his behavior. Disgusting.
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Madison shared this concern in the Federalist Papers.
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Also, men 😉
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IOW: our mainstream news media.
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100%
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Nazis+hate+Fox News -science=fascism
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Anyway, that reminds me, I have a pickup waiting for me at the bookstore, which incidentally is my "place where everybody knows your name".
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Wait, people are blaming women? WTF?
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Exactly, perfect.
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I think you are absolutely correct👽
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That is, in fact, the cause. Got that, @nbcnews.com @abc7.bsky.social @cbsnews.com.web.brid.gy @cnn.com @msnbc.com ?
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Ok It is brown people. Black people. Women reading books. Gay people being happy.Education. Health Care. Food. Got it. You are right. It is the stupid people
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And mainstream is completely guilty of that
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So, basically, you blame the rise of the corporate media monopoly. I think that's a fair assessment. I'm inclined to agree.
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Yes
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I’d blame citizens united but that’s definitely a contender.
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that's like saying one side is stupid whereas a minority has some supremely superior intellect. i don't like it.
i prefer to do an allpass and acknowledge that i too am stupid, in place of whatever else this message could mean.
(who knows???!) 😀
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It's Mills and Boone........ I always thought there was a darkness lurking.
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Who TF blaming women for this I'm blaming men, specifically Joe Rogan and Andrew Tate.
Morons who exploit stupid morons who haven't opened a book in a decade.
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Yes. Also, racism, misogyny, white supremacy and the myth of U.S. exceptionalism. Oh, and greed. Let’s not forget greed.
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but, how do we deal with having more stupid people than experts? they think somehow knowledge is of such a nature that it can, or in some cases should, be overruled by the mere beliefs of a majority. it's gross.
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There is a cult of ignorance in the US, there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge'. Isaac Asimov
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I blame Russia
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EXACTLY.... that's why we REALLY have to pay attention to the BULLSHIT the "old guard" of the Dimocratic Party are going to start spewing ...talk about re-writing History watch these fuckers start trying to convince you that Joe Biden wasn't responsible for the Fascist takeover of America....HE WAS!
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Yeah, the real issue is the media pretending there's two sides to every argument. Some people just argue. Idiocy
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For real, for some reason TV/the news decided to take the equal time rule to apply to more than just political candidates. If there is a conspiracy about anything, it has to have equal time as the truth... such nonsense. And then politicians take these stances and help spread them like the plague.
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And AI is amplifying that multifold.
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What books are we reading?
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You just described the essence of social media and how it killed journalism.
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The books women are reading - this is hilarious. I hadn’t heard that one. Have they looked at the bestsellers list? We want dragons. Not fascism. 🐉
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“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” - Søren Kierkegaard
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I think that the bigger problem is the books white people aren't reading.
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I don't believe they're saying "the books women are reading", they're saying "the books females are reading" which is worse
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It is more complicated than can be expressed in 300 characters. However, average human intelligence plays a role.
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The BBC has been doing this for decades in the guise of "balance".
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We were given the gift of the internet and we trashed it. We all have access to massive repositories of knowledge and instead too many promote idiots.
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And yet some "experts" lie for money. And what some people consider stupid is actually brilliant. i.e. Ignaz Semmelweiss, who suggested washing hands with hot water and soap before surgery. He was laughed at and even imprisoned, cause people thought he was crazy. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_S...
Ignaz Semmelweis - Wikipedia
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What books do they blame? I want to read them! 😃
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The delegitimatization of expertise was a deliberate strategy to let radio blow hards and evangelical clergy carry the same "weight" as scientists.
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Yep.
And then protecting stupid people's hurt feelings when they realize they're stupid.
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If you read about fascism you are educated if you read about mental illness you are educated and if have lived with someone with dementia you recognize it and the orange guy is all three
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So now it’s Oprah’s fault?
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the stupid people's are six Supreme Court lawyers; who don't listen to the experts; just politicians
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MAGA is a movement built on ignorance.
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Yeah. And it’s usually done for the perceived need for “balance”.
While treating the rational party as if they were insane.
Many such cases.
I saw this with Brexit and many other things and it sickens me.
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Ironically the absolute dumbest reduction imaginable.
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100% Dumb people being promoted was the dowmfall of the internet. Conservatives buying out or dominating social media was when that shot started and honestly.. We were fine with forums
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Comes from failed democracies
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It's the dark side of inclusion: anybody can pull any nonsense out of thin air and we all have to give it credence. If it's nonsense, it should be dealt with as such.
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That and more other factors. Rushing in the age of acceptance without a plan backfired.
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May I recommend a book then? 😁 White Trash by Nancy Isenberg does an excellent job of explaining much of how we got here: racism and classism.
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Absolutely. 💯
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You know what's also to blame? Men NOT reading.
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Place blame on the creeping usurpation of power by the executive branch of government. You can thank every president who was in power over the last 60+ years.
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FAUX News.... the dumbing down of news for the cult base.
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Amen
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Gobshites on YouTube have a lot to answer for.
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Anti-intellectualism is an issue, but I think its a symptom.
The last 40 years of neoliberal economics made it inevitable.
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Idiocracy, the movie, come true....
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Because as people say: Opinions are like assholes everybody has one, but most are not particularly attractive.
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So hard to choose between vaccination and ivermectin. ;)
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That's it in a nutshell
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I fear that being woke, and not calling out idiots, anti-vaxxers, fascists et al, has backfired!
I'm afraid I'll have to put: "Holy shit, you're an idiot!" back into my lexicon.
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Bingo.
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And, by stupid people, you mean men.
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Agreed
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The USA has turned into Dunning-Krugerstan.
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That's democracy for you. Every idiot an equal say as anyone who actually reads and understands.
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... and lying right-wing mouthpieces manipulating viewers' emotions.
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"The books women are reading"? Which books would that be? 🤔
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My favorite is "in fairness the Senator denounced the ad once it had gone viral.." Or 🐎 💩 to that effect.
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Like the felon in The White House.
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It is, and I'll never understand why the supposed "defenders" of liberalism and democracy went along with... oh? Ratings were good? So they got more money and donations for pretending liars and morons had good points? Yeah, I guess that makes sense.
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the huge amount of funding the right wing gets from capitalists for pushing deregulation and tax cuts, and organized religious boosting of conservative causes, and white racial fear of being outnumbered
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This year, I'm going to read even more!
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THIS!! A million times this!!
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Blame it on the people that Don’t read books!
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Yup, some times the only opinion that counts is the one the facts support...
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the cause is inequality. Hitler was trying to be a painter. but couldnt afford to live. So he joins in with the other men that couldn’t afford to live. Hate isnt hard to find if thats all you’re society leaves you with. See history without you’re own biases and you see groups fighting each other
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Citizens United and decades of right wing media propaganda funded by the rich
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Yeah…what are stupid people’s expertise about? 🤔
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You mean like fucking tweets?
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The most reasonable post I’ve read in months
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“I did my own research” from a population that has the average reading level of a 10 year old.
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Why would anybody, who can actually link two thoughts together, believe that the books women are reading are the cause of the rise of fascism?
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So, all those super happy, anti-fascist, democratic-socialist nations have instituted a ban on women reading books?
Who knew?
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Dunning-Kruger
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That may be where we went wrong, yes. Same with the open- minded, open-hearted faith communities not calling the ultra-RW Christians the heretics and Fascists they really are.
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Amen.
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The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
- Issac Asimov
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that and thought killing sayings.
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I thought it was Christofascists and Nazis taking over the government out of hate and greed.
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I wholeheartedly agree. Fascism should never be given a platform, let alone handed that platform on a silver platter, under the guise of "freedom" of speech. Fascism is viral in nature and once allowed to be in legitimate ethical and moral conversations, it immediately begins to "hapsberg" society.
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It's bad enough their votes carry the same weight.
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People use the internet and “educate” themselves to their own detriment!!
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There has been a disproportionate emphasis on college over experience, trade & technical training.
This has created inefficient education and a backlash against higher education.
BA / BS degrees are unsuitable for most people. Forcing them creates backlash. Only execs & educators need them.
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People keep doing what now?
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Yup yup yup
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So true, women shouldn't be taken seriously no matter what books they read.
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So,
in Led Zeppelin’s “Stairway to Heaven,” the Dear Lady we all know personifies a knowing path.
She picks
- Foo Fighters “Everlong”
- Oasis “Wonderwall”
- Tool “Pneuma”
- docs.google.com/document/d/1...
- Collective Soul “Shine”
- RHCP “Snow”
- “Battle Hymn/Republic”
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Who blames the rise of fascism on the books women are reading?
I don't see too many females marching under the swastika. Just a bunch of lame-ass men who are too embarrassed and insecure to march without masks.
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I agree 100%.
As long as I'm the person that gets to decide who's stupid and who's an "expert".
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Yeah like supply side economics is stupid. Why entertain this dumbass myth?
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The Twin Enemies of Thought
Civilisation is not held together by armies or markets, but by the life of the mind. A society capable of reflection, debate, and reason can adapt, reform, and renew itself. Strip that away, and…
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Oh, yes. This.
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Which people? Because this is the first time I've ever heard of that.
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Or, to be more concise, the real cause is simply stupid people
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This post ⬆️ is priceless. I blame social media for the rise of stupid people’s opinion.
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Yep, you got that exactly right. Thank you!!!
