Comment on Why, just why?

hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• FundMECFSResearch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I have this meme on hand for when I encounter these types

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  • Flax_vert@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    “people fleeing horrific situations that you and I can’t imagine”

    I know France is a hole, but I wouldn’t go that far.

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• obinice@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I know you’re right, but I’m a working class, poor, and routinely fucked over Brit, but I’m not stupid enough to fall for this nonsense.

  Granted I’ve always thought people trying to get me to believe things that didn’t make much sense to me were idiots and disliked them.

  They tried to sell me on religion in school, I thought it was a load of rubbish - I remember telling the priest exactly that when I was 11 and he wanted me to do my Holy Communion.

  I looked at stuff like the Daily Mirror and thought it was crap, and eventually I got the Internet and started learning more, and it wasn’t too hard to use the basic critical thinking skills taught by my parents and teachers to figure rubbish from not.

  That said, I’m probably wrong about loads of things and believe all sorts of propaganda and misinformation that I don’t realise, but at least the bare faced obvious lies like “It’s people seeking political asylum who are the reason the minimum wage is unlovable” are very, painfully obvious to me 😂

  …like, it’s actually insulting that they would think anyone would be thick enough to fall for that.

  I grew up in a dirt poor shit hole council estate in schools constantly in special measures about to be shut down, surrounded my chavs and yobbos in school who literally murdered old ladies in their homes and the like (I’m not exaggerating, sadly), and yet I’m perfectly capable of spotting this rubbish.

  I know some people are extremely stupid, but surely it’s a small percentage in the grand scheme, so why do so many seemingly smart people fall for this obvious nonsense?

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  • hellothere@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, there’s a whole bunch of reasons, but I don’t think it’s simply stupidity.

    Some people didn’t learn the critical thinking skills you have, some may well have “lost their job to an immigrant” (and not realise that it was actually their boss that took it). Some are scared of change, some are suspicious of “outsiders” and haven’t actually met any, and when they do realise everyone is just people.

    And some are just dirty fucking racists, and they are absolutely stupid.

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  • HumanPenguin@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    and routinely fucked over Brit

    Stop bragging. You will get blamed for your government funded sex life.

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  • phoh@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I know some people are extremely stupid, but surely it’s a small percentage in the grand scheme, so why do so many seemingly smart people fall for this obvious nonsense?

    they want to

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  • mannycalavera@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They tried to sell me on religion in school, I thought it was a load of rubbish - I remember telling the priest exactly that when I was 11 and he wanted me to do my Holy Communion.

    The priest probably wanted to fuck you in the arse - you dodged a bullet. Well done your young self!

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