Posts made by hubrys

I love when conservatives bitch about the debt, citing Medicare, but then conveniently forget that it was their boy, George W. Bush, that created the last, large entitlement program, Medicare Part D.

@raphjd

Can you imagine how stupid a President would have to be, with our soaring debt, to propose a $2 trillion infrastructure bill.....oops...

[https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/trump-calls-for-2-trillion-infrastructure-bill-to-create-jobs](link url)

@raphjd

"What the new recording does not do is present a substantively different picture of what Trump was up to on that call than the Post’s original story. Trump, though, is savvy about the fact that most people will only vaguely remember the details, will mix the Raffensperger and Watson calls up, and will see reports of a correction regarding Trump’s Georgia phone call. Those sympathetic to Trump or skeptical of the media will wonder if he got a bad rap regarding that larger story. He did not."

https://www.vox.com/2021/3/16/22333805/washington-post-correction-trump-georgia

@raphjd said in Liberals hate critical thinking:

Both articles say basically the same thing.
They claim that everyone should not do their own research because there are so many lies on the internet. You should just trust what liberal MSM tells you and ignore everything else.

So the answer is that you didn't read them. If you had, then you would know that the point each was making is that people thinking that they somehow have as much skill, education, and training to come to a correct conclusion as a professional expert (i.e., a scientist or specialist) is a potentially dangerous thing. It's why misinformation and hokum gets spread on the Internet.

Basically, an ordinary person doesn't take a premise, objectively analyze every side of that premise, and then come to a conclusion based on all available evidence. What people do is form an opinion about the truth or falseness of a premise, and then collect evidence to support that opinion while discounting evidence that is contrary.

And neither article instructs the reader to blindly believe the MSM.

I will also point out that, for as much as you criticize people for blindly believing the MSM, you wasted no time blinding believing the MSM. I hate to break it to you, but Tucker Carlson is part of the MSM. So is the rest of FOX News.

@raphjd
As was indicated in the original article, those who lie to themselves by telling themselves that they "don't see color" then don't have any motivation or inclination to examine the unconscious or implicit biases that they actually do possess, despite their lie to themselves.

In other words, someone who tells themselves they don't see color doesn't think they have any room for improvement. However, no one is free from all cognitive or social biases, no matter how hard they lie to themselves.

There is a spectrum upon which we must find a balance toward the middle when it comes to analyzing race in America. On one side of the spectrum is the "I don't see color" un-critical ignorance referenced in the original post. On the other side is modern Critical Theory, which posits that everything...EVERYTHING...is the product of power differentials, and almost everything can be explained by racism.

@raphjd
I'm going to assume that you didn't read either of those articles. Either that, or you are being purposefully disingenuous.

@tj16

Unfortunately, gays are not immune to the toxic paradigm sold by people like Rush Limbaugh. Basically, you take anything in the world that's happening, reduce it to a gross oversimplification couched in emotive terms, and let the audience's outrage convince them of the rightness of your argument. Once you've got them agreeing or buying in on some portion of what you're selling, their innate cognitive dissonance will keep them doing the bulk of the work glossing over or ignoring the patent holes in your worldview.

It's how conservative radio, QAnon, and even some groups on the Left work and perpetuate themselves.

@lalo4

The person doing the windmill is Cole from Fratmen.com. He does webcam on Chaturbate now.

@raphjd

"All men have an emotion to kill; when they strongly dislike some one, they involuntarily wish he was dead. I have never killed any one, but I have read some obituary notices with great satisfaction." -- Clarence Darrow.

Can we celebrate his death with as much glee and gusto as the AIDS updates he used to do on his show where he would celebrate gay men dying of AIDS, with horns, disco music, and cheers?