On Monday, the Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to use racial profiling in its militarized immigration raids across Los Angeles, halting an injunction that had barred officers from targeting Latinos based on ethnicity. The court did not explain the reason for its shadow docket order, which appeared to split 6–3 along ideological lines. In dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor warned that the decision was “unconscionably irreconcilable with our nation’s constitutional guarantees,” opening the door to violent persecution of Latinos—including American citizens—by “masked agents with guns.” The majority did not respond to this extraordinary charge, perhaps because it is so obviously true.
Let’s be clear, I am not going to blame a large portion of the population for being lied to. I listened to years of Rush Limbaugh (not willingly) so I know where their made-up grievances come from. I have watched countless hours of Fox News, I see how they spin information.
Simply put, propaganda works. They are using the best of psychological to manipulate people. Do I hate it? Yes I do.
They have indoctrinated so many people I know and loved and turned them into haters who parrot their garbage without any critical thought.
I’m not blaming them for being lied to. I’m blaming them for not doing the absolute minimum critical thinking to realize that they are being lied to. We’ve all heard the lies. Tens of millions of people listened to those lies, thought about them critically, and came to the conculsion that they were weapons grade bullshit.
Completely agree. There was a reason conservatives threw a shit fit two decades ago when high schoolers were going to be taught critical thinking skills. They fought tooth and nail to prevent it from happening.
Critical thinking skills and the skills of forming your own opinion and defending it with facts and logic should be taught in grade school. Instead most students are not introduced this until college.
Now you know why the right hates colleges so much and are so desperate to have their ideology taught as factual. They can’t have anyone using critical thinking skills otherwise their house of cards will fall down.
Completely agree.