In general, I would encourage you not to take things at face value and actually spend some time learning about topics like this. You shouldn’t take my word for things, but this is obvious to you because what I say often goes against your existing beliefs. It’s even more important to fact check things that align with your biases. The kind of misinformation that’s the most effective is the kind that feeds on what you’re already primed to believe.
edit: quite telling how people start downvoting comments that encourage them to question their conditioning 🤡
It’s something to do with the us/them culture. People responded to both of us not based on what we said, but based on where they thought we were coming from related to their own sense of identity.
Your edit is likely to draw more downvotes though, because it’s potentially implying things about the readers that have nothing to do with your original valid argument.
In general, I would encourage you not to take things at face value and actually spend some time learning about topics like this. You shouldn’t take my word for things, but this is obvious to you because what I say often goes against your existing beliefs. It’s even more important to fact check things that align with your biases. The kind of misinformation that’s the most effective is the kind that feeds on what you’re already primed to believe.
edit: quite telling how people start downvoting comments that encourage them to question their conditioning 🤡
It’s something to do with the us/them culture. People responded to both of us not based on what we said, but based on where they thought we were coming from related to their own sense of identity.
Your edit is likely to draw more downvotes though, because it’s potentially implying things about the readers that have nothing to do with your original valid argument.