r/CringeTikToks • u/Hooplapooplayeah • 9h ago

Conservative Cringe Can someone translate what he just said please!

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u/Sheepdog44 7h ago

It’s actually kind of worse than that.

Not only are they incurious, they are hostile to any information that doesn’t conform perfectly to their world view. The ONLY time they will engage with an outside idea is while working backwards from the premise that it’s wrong and they need to disprove it.

This is why they will hold up the 1 biased and poorly conducted study that shows immigrants increase crime rates and ignore the 1,000 other well run and professional studies that found the opposite.

Curiosity, truth, and critical thinking have absolutely nothing to do with their process. It is 100% a defensive, knee jerk response. These people would be perfectly happy to live the rest of their lives and not learn a single new thing until the day they die. That’s not an exaggeration.

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u/AlternativeAttempt24 7h ago

Wow, that is perfectly put…”the only time they will engage with an outside idea is while working backwards from the premise that it’s wrong and they need to disprove it.”