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US Authoritarianism @lemmy.world alphanerd4 @lemmy.world 4mo ago

Study History and You’ll Never Spend a Day Working Because it Doesn’t Support Capitalism

Ngl this is what every single one of you fucking liberals calling me out about my substandard research practices makes me feel .

—— And you know like to be clear I am saying that as like that’s a Me problem. I need to figure out how the fuck to be able to accept criticism or none of this is gonna get to a point where it’s worth Jack.

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This is why the right wing loves the poorly educated.
I had a similar run in with a friend who grew up in mid-western PA who had never heard of red lining and refused to believe that something like that happened in this country. He hopped on the crazy conspiracies train around the time COVID and I haven’t talked to him since.

I genuinely think that a lot of these “great again” folks don’t understand what things were like “back then” and that all this social progress actually happened. It’s sad.
- You don't need to worry about whether your thoughts are accurate. These people quite literally don't know how anything works. They're at the "ignorant enough to be dangerous" part of the dunning-kruger curve. Intelligent people don't solidify opinions about topics they've never researched, and know nothing about. They don't consider Fox News or their social media bubbles as research. They change their opinion based on evidence.
  
  I don't think I've ever seen someone on the MAGA spectrum of mental illness produce anything resembling a sound argument.
"Jim Crow? You mean like the character from Dumbo?"
- Yes, literally!
- Lead character from cult film classic "The Crow"
  
  Jesus Christ that’s Jim Crow!
"That's lEfTiST hiStORy"
Sounds like a classic, white washed Ivy League educational experience for the likely nepo-baby NYT reporter.
- white washed Ivy League educational experience
  
  The education at Ivies isn’t significantly different from the rest of higher ed. They even use the same cafeteria vendors. The primary difference is tuition.
  
  And the tuition is a way to exclude (with few exceptions for publicity sake) "the poors" from entering. This way the capitalist elites can keep living in their bubbles and use it as a means of making connections to further their businesses
- The other likelihoods being poor middle/high school history programs/teachers due to decades of neglecting our educational system and devaluing teachers.
New York Crimes
Sounds super real and like it definitely happened
- Whenever I see a story that seems far fetched, I try to think about it more broadly.
  
  Was it a NYT reporter who hadn't heard of Jim Crow laws? Maybe, could've been a nobody intern who grew up in the South. Besides that, I fully believe this conversation has occurred with an ignorant person, if not a NYT reporter.
  
  I grew up partially in the absolute middle of nowhere texas. We still learned about jim crow there.
  
  But there is a very specific agenda here. So say to people who already think that the NYT is bad, that the NYT employs people without even the slightest understanding of history. I highly doubt this happened.
  
  who grew up in the South
  
  I would expect somebody who grew up in the South to be more likely to have heard about Jim Crow than somebody who grew up in some supermajority-white place like the mountain west or whatever.
i don't believe you the nyt would never do tha

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