It’s taken me a number of years to ingest the amount of historical context I now have, which is still way less than a lot of people on here. You can’t really internalize a meaningful amount of context for events that happened before your lifetime or at least outside of your awareness, just by skimming a couple wiki articles once, and old relevant news articles are often hard to find, buried by whatever the current discourse is. What you can do though, is use your existing perspective on the world (judging by your CW, probably US exceptionalism) and make a lot of assumptions to come to a kneejerk conclusion.
Does that mean they’re not wrong to speak flagrantly on issues they have almost zero knowledge of? no, ofc not, but there will always be dipshits. Some will eventually learn, some will refuse to learn. They need to be taught “no investigation, no right to speak”, I guess.
Word. There’s just so, so, so much information. And until you’ve been in it for a long time you don’t even have a clue how much there is you don’t know, how much of what you “know” is rank propaganda. And I have huge advantages; I was lucky enough to go to uni and have genuine curmudgeonly old-school marxist professors and anti-capitalist professors who opened my eyes to all kinds of weird shit I had no idea about. And it still took me a long, long, long time to become a frothing unhinged big spoon commie. Like I didn’t really break with America until the al-Awlaki assassination, despite all the bullshit that came before that.
I’m not clicking on that but like… kinda yeah
It’s taken me a number of years to ingest the amount of historical context I now have, which is still way less than a lot of people on here. You can’t really internalize a meaningful amount of context for events that happened before your lifetime or at least outside of your awareness, just by skimming a couple wiki articles once, and old relevant news articles are often hard to find, buried by whatever the current discourse is. What you can do though, is use your existing perspective on the world (judging by your CW, probably US exceptionalism) and make a lot of assumptions to come to a kneejerk conclusion.
Does that mean they’re not wrong to speak flagrantly on issues they have almost zero knowledge of? no, ofc not, but there will always be dipshits. Some will eventually learn, some will refuse to learn. They need to be taught “no investigation, no right to speak”, I guess.
Word. There’s just so, so, so much information. And until you’ve been in it for a long time you don’t even have a clue how much there is you don’t know, how much of what you “know” is rank propaganda. And I have huge advantages; I was lucky enough to go to uni and have genuine curmudgeonly old-school marxist professors and anti-capitalist professors who opened my eyes to all kinds of weird shit I had no idea about. And it still took me a long, long, long time to become a frothing unhinged big spoon commie. Like I didn’t really break with America until the al-Awlaki assassination, despite all the bullshit that came before that.