• Damarcusart [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 month ago

    I think a lot of Fascists actually understand science better than the average Lib. They know scientific understanding is only as good as the data you put in, bad data in, bad theories out. But they also know that libs practically worship science as a capital T Truthful thing, that if The Science says something, then it must be true.

    So they do things like this. They know they’re full of shit, but they don’t care, if they can influence public perception enough (while also defunding scientific programs enough) then “The Science” will just be treated as vague “common sense” which is easy to manipulate.

    And it works on Liberals, really well. I’m sure all of us here have heard at least one Liberal share this opinion that non-white people are inherently less intelligent than whites, just with a condescending attitude instead of a hostile one.

    • plinky [he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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      1 month ago

      linking intelligence to aristocracy heritability is time honored tradition of iq tests (the reason they were invented tbh). they’ve had to include other whiteys under umbrella, but real heads know that a polish man redacted-1redacted-2 compared to real anglo of california breed

      it’s kinda a neat trick of swapping “i can predict your future earnings by your zip-code/parents income” into “your parents are so smart and rich and successful and beautiful and donate to my ngo, you obviously will be smart and therefore successful” (it’s swapping correlation into a causation, for reddit nerds reading this 😘)