Never having to lie about their beliefs or present ideas they disagree with stops leftists from ever becoming critical thinkers.

antireddit · 2020-10-10T17:10:19+00:00

Modern day woke leftists are just oversocialized. They are so heavily invested in social status and governed by peer pressure they could never think for themselves and go against the grain, and the grain is set by a hostile media and academic elite backed by a lot of money. It is mob mentality on an epic scale. Everyone is afraid of the mob, and the closer to the mob you are personally, say a twenty something living in Portland, a member of the media, or a ladder climbing professional active on social media, the more likely you are to join the mob to avoid being a target of it. It really is the Salem witch trial mentality. A mass hysteria that has overcome huge segments of the population in the same way charges of witchcraft overtook Salem, only in this case it is being fueled deliberately by a group of people with an agenda.

BLM and antifa are primarily weapons of terror wielded by a hostile elite in order to keep the population from outwardly opposing their agenda and push the overton window on their brand of identity politics. It's a dubious strategy by a group of risk taking sociopaths from a culture that has always been about high risk and high reward behavior.

disidentHR · 2020-10-10T17:52:56+00:00

Good post, you make a good point about own experience having to do with perceiving the HuffPo article.

I think that's kinda like why the establishment flames video games and used to flame YouTube algorithms, because when growing up liberalism is the default state, and younger people are more likely to observe stuff critically (like when a child asks why does God do X or something in similar manner, and he has some sort of punishment for questioning it, mostly parents just raising their voice). People past their teenagership ^{^(is} ^{^that} ^{^a} ^{^word?)} can only learn through hard experience sadly.

Soylent · 2020-10-10T17:05:53+00:00

If you're left wing, then you will never experience this.

This would be false for me, but I understand what you mean as in the vast majority won't. Arguing for both points from the right and left showed me the right is right about many more things but not when it comes to ethics subjectively, and arguably objectively in certain cases (In university for instance related to a philosophy course, but I took it upon myself to argue certain points without upsetting the status quo too much) and what to do with the difficult truths of reality.

Back to the original statement though, saying that this alone stops them from becoming critical thinkers is false because critical thinking is still required to get almost any PhD. It's better said critical thinking related to race and politics is something that becomes non-existent.

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