It’s wild how so many people can have a very strong opinion on something that they clearly don’t have 75% of the relevant info for. lol fucking social media.
People really just read the first things that come out in the case, make up their minds, and never read anything else.
See also- the Alabama basketball shooting that happened last year, where a bunch of info that made the case way more complicated and messier than it first appeared came out, but, but everyone just ignored it and carried on spouting misinformation.
I think most never reach the realization that they were wrong. They just move on and ignore what goes against what they chose to believe. They never realize they were bamboozled.
Confirmation bias afforded by ignorance, willful or just plain, is a strong drug, never more so than in today’s utterly polarized world where so many have consciously or subconsciously decided to judge everyone and everything based on intersectionality instead of valid logic based on factual premises and objectivity. In short, many today will see what they want to see because it fits their preconcieved biases, doing so allows them to continue to support their believed narratives, and it makes them FEEL good about themselves and their beliefs, facts and logic be damned. This is nothing new, the world has always had people who act thus way, what us new is the ability for these types to gain strength in great numbers via social media, couple that with actual media, academia, political, and lately economic/business entities desire to gain clout and/or resist being demonized by the hoard of the unthinking and actually adding validity to such nonsense, well, we end up with what we have today.
It’s wild how so many people can have a very strong opinion on something that they clearly don’t have 75% of the relevant info for. lol fucking social media.
People really just read the first things that come out in the case, make up their minds, and never read anything else.
See also- the Alabama basketball shooting that happened last year, where a bunch of info that made the case way more complicated and messier than it first appeared came out, but, but everyone just ignored it and carried on spouting misinformation.
There was a movie about it. I’m an expert
You would think people would get exhausted from holding very strong opinions, only to realize they were bamboozled time after time
I think most never reach the realization that they were wrong. They just move on and ignore what goes against what they chose to believe. They never realize they were bamboozled.
Confirmation bias afforded by ignorance, willful or just plain, is a strong drug, never more so than in today’s utterly polarized world where so many have consciously or subconsciously decided to judge everyone and everything based on intersectionality instead of valid logic based on factual premises and objectivity. In short, many today will see what they want to see because it fits their preconcieved biases, doing so allows them to continue to support their believed narratives, and it makes them FEEL good about themselves and their beliefs, facts and logic be damned. This is nothing new, the world has always had people who act thus way, what us new is the ability for these types to gain strength in great numbers via social media, couple that with actual media, academia, political, and lately economic/business entities desire to gain clout and/or resist being demonized by the hoard of the unthinking and actually adding validity to such nonsense, well, we end up with what we have today.