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Notes from the Under Dog L.'s avatar

The average IQ is 100, which isn't that bright. This story proves it. These people are just plain unapologetically stupid. I've grown so weary of the attitude that critical thinking is a "right wing talking point."

The other day a colleague -- yes -- a "professor" posted graffiti that read "abolish the courts" with the caption YEAH! Abolish the courts!"

Finally -- though I embrace free speech -- I hit the "unfollow" button. The fashion these days is to be the biggest Useful Idiot on the block.

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Douglas Hayward's avatar

This is not about intelligence, it’s about decency and genuine care - empathy - for ordinary people living their lives at ground level, people in another world from the privileged space of college campuses and overfunded NGOs. Don’t let the republicans get a monopoly of empathy for working people!

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Notes from the Under Dog L.'s avatar

Intelligence is in part an ability to see ahead; in other words it’s cause and effect. If you pity criminals and don’t impose consequences they WILL take advantage of your idiot compassion (what you just said is more about your own supposed virtue than actual “care” — because people who live in gang-run neighborhoods are endangered by your self-aggrandizing activism.

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Rich Smith's avatar

Michael Shellenberger pointed out in his book San Fransicko that lefties only have empathy for “victims”. If you are a law-abiding citizen, working hard, contributing to society, or even God forbid, own a home or a business, then they don’t care about you.

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MDM 2.0's avatar

because you are obviously an oppressor

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Celia M Paddock's avatar

And in the Woke ideology, the criminals are the victims.

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Bruce Miller's avatar

It may not be about IQ but it certainly is about intellect and the ability to see and understand cause and effect. Something missing from the brains of the woke and Democrat voters (such as you) in general. If all cities in patent decline are run by Democrats, logic and reason would require a different tack. Ne c'est pas?

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Grape Soda's avatar

You can lead a lib to reason but you can’t make him think

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milllionthmonkeytyping's avatar

lol made me think of Dorothy Parker and horticulture :)

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Coco's avatar

I agree this is not about intelligence but your "Don’t let the republicans get a monopoly of empathy for working people!" is a sad display of myopic partisanship that I see where I live. It's a red state that is becoming infested with "empathetic" blue state transplants who left their red state for a reason but can't make the connection.

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Lynne Morris's avatar

So it is about intelligence, or rather lack of it. I am not being belligerent. I am in the same circumstance in my community.

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