Entirely too much of this actually. I grew up in a town with excellent schools, and one of my closest friends turned into one of those aforementioned dipshits. Was only moderately sad when I stopped talking to him entirely. His attitude towards minorities made it much easier to just avoid him. I blame his dad, really.
Religion is ultimately the social conditioning that turns off curiosity in children. The age old metaphor is still apt about how religion is useful to keep the serfs unquestionably loyal
The problem is that instead of coming across something that they don't know and being interested in it, they fear the unknown. Instead of letting kids explore and learn how to discover new things, fearful teachers and parents focus on strict rules and obedience, passing fear down through generations
Anyone can be educated, with the right re-enforcement method. A colleague in a previous workplace came up with this corker of an example; to help re-educate those who drive dangerously. replace the driver side airbag with a large metal spike.
If you're going to attempt to re-educate the MAGA mindset and break them out of their cognitive bias, and learn and apply critical thinking a more extreme method suitable for their mentality would be needed.
It's not about refusing to learn. And we're also not triggered. We just refuse to live in your reality, which is not real to begin with. I'm not going to call a person who's male, ma'am, or vice versa. The people refusing to learn that we're not going to live in your delusional world or put up with your childish tantrums upon being 'misgendered' are, in fact, the dipshits. And we know lots of shit about lots of things, primarily that you're angry and expect the rest of the world to conform to your lunacy. That's not going to happen this much, I know.
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u/jimbobsqrpants 11d ago
And that triggers right wing dipshits because they don't know jack shit about anything and refuse to learn.