“we’ll never be able to accomplish fascism in the US because our base of suburban Fox News watchers are stupid and incurious about political theory” is a pretty amusing premise

      • MF_COOM [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        6 months ago

        There was this great catty Malm quote in Corona, Climate and Chronic Emergency where he offhandly refers to pinker’s “airport best-seller Enlightenment Now” che-smile

    • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Liberals skim NYT articles and Stephen Pinker books.

      They don’t know how to think and therefore cannot learn. The idea that reading entails actually reading multiple history books in a topic from hard-nosed scholars and from different angles of political theory is an unimaginable amount of work to them, which is what I personally think of when I say liberals don’t read. Sure they’re literate and do a little half-assed reading but they refuse to acknowledge their ignorance and instead think their half-assed reading is sufficient to form a good opinion.