The thread through all this? A feeling of aggrieved entitlement.
When we don’t have the critical thinking skills needed to listen to claims, identify who is making them, assess the evidence they’re based on & notice whose interests are served by the arguments presented, we are Very Vulnerable to manipulation through this feeling.
No wonder political parties of the white patriarchal supremacist right have been systematically defunding the institutions & disciplines that teach these skills.
People are not our enemy. Ignorance is.
#education #history #sociology #philosopy #ethics #CriticalThinking #schools #universities #NeoLiberalism #strategy #manipulation #polarisation #plunder #profit
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2026/apr/18/the-families-torn-apart-by-older-relatives-going-far-right?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
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