Parents are opting out of school vaccinations at the highest rate ever. Last school year, that amounted to 3% of U.S. children entering kindergarten. The highest rate was 12% in Idaho, where a chan…
Well, maybe we should stop teaching people that everyone’s opinions are valid. That, and that there are people out there who want you to be uninformed/misinformed.
I just don’t understand how not stopping people from easily preventing deadly diseases helps Republicans. It’s their people getting the diseases and dying.
Reality is a threat to conservatives. Denying reality, in any form, weakens the arguments against conservativism. Claiming untruths is a quick and dirty way to determining who is in and who is out.
Anyone out is the enemy, and therefore evil. Anything they do, say, or believe is evil because they did, said, or believed it.
Anyone who is in is good. Anything they do, say, or believe is good because they did, said, or believed it.
Some may die of preventable diseases, but that’s a sacrifice the conservative doesn’t even acknowledge because fuck anyone who isn’t me.
Yeah, but it’s a loss in terms of votes. You aren’t going to win elections if the people who vote for you are dying out because of what you are telling them to avoid doing.
If you’re being nice, you’d say they’re contrarians.
If you’re being not nice, you’d say they all suffer from oppositional-defiance disorder from decades of right-wing propaganda rotting their brains. Democrats say vaccines are good, therefore they must really be tools of the satanic child molesting one world government globalist cabal to steal our vital fluids and turn all of us into gay transgendered purple-haired soy-latte-drinking they/thems.
All the more reason to teach people more reliable ways of evaluating claims and information. Then, when an expert—or more likely, a politician—spreads bullshit, people will be better equipped to detect it.
Well, maybe we should stop teaching people that everyone’s opinions are valid. That, and that there are people out there who want you to be uninformed/misinformed.
I just don’t understand how not stopping people from easily preventing deadly diseases helps Republicans. It’s their people getting the diseases and dying.
I really don’t get them sometimes.
Reality is a threat to conservatives. Denying reality, in any form, weakens the arguments against conservativism. Claiming untruths is a quick and dirty way to determining who is in and who is out.
Anyone out is the enemy, and therefore evil. Anything they do, say, or believe is evil because they did, said, or believed it.
Anyone who is in is good. Anything they do, say, or believe is good because they did, said, or believed it.
Some may die of preventable diseases, but that’s a sacrifice the conservative doesn’t even acknowledge because fuck anyone who isn’t me.
Yeah, but it’s a loss in terms of votes. You aren’t going to win elections if the people who vote for you are dying out because of what you are telling them to avoid doing.
Short term vs long term gain
If you’re being nice, you’d say they’re contrarians.
If you’re being not nice, you’d say they all suffer from oppositional-defiance disorder from decades of right-wing propaganda rotting their brains. Democrats say vaccines are good, therefore they must really be tools of the satanic child molesting one world government globalist cabal to steal our vital fluids and turn all of us into gay transgendered purple-haired soy-latte-drinking they/thems.
Sad and bonkers how all of this is actually completely true.
If experts were always right, you’d have a point.
But history has shown that experts will routinely abuse their position of authority to exploit those who do not know any better.
All the more reason to teach people more reliable ways of evaluating claims and information. Then, when an expert—or more likely, a politician—spreads bullshit, people will be better equipped to detect it.
Definitely.