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I'm so fucking tired of this easy answer.
Ignorance is not what makes people endorse fascism. It's disinformation. It's emotional manipulation. It's conservatism, as a worldview. There's a lot of really smart people who are gleefully participating in this ongoing atrocity. They have college degrees. They didn't get them from places run by Nazis. They didn't grow up blissfully unaware of World War II. If you explain to them, in detail, that this is what fascism is, and what they're doing is what Nazis were hanged for, they would simply generate excuses for how this is different and nuh uh and it's your fault.
Yep. Plenty of brilliant engineers working for Boston Dynamics or Lockheed just gleefully developing killbots and weapon systems almost solely because it is cutting edge tech and because all that matters to them is the question of “can?” and never “should?” It’s probably the only real kind of ‘autism’ that anyone should really be afraid of, not whatever bs RFK Jr is spouting.
I like to think that good education can help make people resistant to the emotional siren call of fascism and other "my in-group is best fuck you" problems.
But isn’t that the real problem? School shouldn’t train you to be a mindless follower who simply obeys orders and consumes endlessly. That mindset is exactly what got us into this situation in the first place.
'School alone won't fix this.'
'So it's school's fault?'
Jesus, people.
You highlight issues directly connected to how schools and universities are teaching obedience and following orders. When was the last time a college professor genuinely appreciated being corrected by a student? I'm not just talking about schools, iam talking about the education system as a whole which isn't really teaching critical thinking and that's not a bug its a feature in a capitalistic system that treats their citizen like cattle and now its backfiring because of the increasing disinformation campaigns and growing influence of adversaries. It seems there may have been a misunderstanding of my original point, but to be fair, expressing myself in a way that is well understood is my handicap, i hope i could clarify.