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The problem with Babylon Bee is that conservatives aren’t smart enough to know it’s satire. So now we have to rebut and defend against the bullshit they read there as if it were real.
The Babylon Bee also makes articles under the guise of satire in an attempt to take advantage of this very fact. They're basically a misinformation source that calls themselves satire because they know their base will take them seriously, but they can deny it. They're basically Fox News calling themselves the onion.
Yep, they are not satire at all, recently a video from them popped up in my feed, that's about gender reassignment surgery, there was nothing satirical or funny about it
Entertainment. They said they can't be sued because no one would take them seriously because they aren't news, they are "entertainment." They won.
That was fucking ridiculous. As if there's not ample evidence that millions of people take Fox News seriously.
I think calling conservatives "dumb" is needlessly inflammatory, and what's worse, is it's incorrect. They just fall for a common human failing: confirmation bias, amongst other well known fallacies.
"They're not dumb, they're just worse at processing information than their other fellow humans."
That's just the point. These failings are common. That means we all fall prey to these faults from time to time. Just remember when you point a finger, at least three get pointed back to you.
It's not our fault reality scares conservatives. It's their fault for refusing to make friends with what they cannot change. If the unknown scares them so much, what they should do is get familiar, not hostile.
People who make bad and wrong decisions deserve nothing positive. They deserve to learn why they are bad and wrong.
No. They're dumb. It's scientifically proven at this point. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0160289609000051
Had a quick glance at this study. Forgive any mistakes, but I have a few "faulting" observations:
…. Which is why we call them dumb.
There is such a thing as self controlled ignorance (or whatever its called), conservitives use it all the time. Someone reminded me what thin excuses manifesting as jokes look like and why they are used.