CW: Nazi

There are hundreds of QTs from Nazis talking about how they were the smartest kids ever but the damn (((education system))) hampered them, and anyone who doesn’t believe that they’re hyper geniuses is simply a seething lib.

You’re supposed to get over the “I was a gifted kid” stuff by the time you’re 20.

  • Changeling [it/its]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    Although smart people don’t tend to believe outdated race science either so I guess that’s pretty self-explanatory

    Conventionally intelligent people are actually more likely to believe race science because they’re more likely to have fringe beliefs in general. Turns out being good at manipulating logic makes you good at deluding yourself, too.

    I know this wasn’t the point of your post, which I agree with in general. Just a common way for us to slip into the mindset that rationality is a trait rather than a skill which needs to be consciously used.

    • Dolores [love/loves]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      social indoctrination is also a category of ‘intelligence’, someone who knows all the rules and how to work within them, who acts properly, is ‘intelligent’ but inside a racist evil society like ours the corollary is they’re also racist