I know. I agree. These protesters are stupid and understand nothing. I thought some of them were Ivy League? Do they not teach critical thinking at those schools.
I know. I agree. These protesters are stupid and understand nothing. I thought some of them were Ivy League? Do they not teach critical thinking at those schools.
The way it works at elite schools (I'm a rather recent alum of a non-Ivy highly selective private university which draws from mostly the same applicant pool as the ones featured in these sorts of protests) is that most of these students are actually smart and capable of critical thinking, but they turn it off when it's not something related to their schoolwork or their job. Essentially, they are smart but they're not intellectuals. They don't care to think deeply about any issue that they aren't being evaluated on, and they revert to tribalism, sloganeering, and having to feel like they're on the right side of history. They also have a lot of undue respect for activists because the liberal/progressive parts of society tend to laud them, and so they feel like they have to be activists to be respected as someone who cares about the world beyond their narrow careers. A lot of popular culture denigrates those who are narrowly focused on their own lives and careers, and so showing that they care beyond those things, even in a very unintelligent way, makes them feel more cool.
I know. I agree. These protesters are stupid and understand nothing. I thought some of them were Ivy League? Do they not teach critical thinking at those schools.
The way it works at elite schools (I'm a rather recent alum of a non-Ivy highly selective private university which draws from mostly the same applicant pool as the ones featured in these sorts of protests) is that most of these students are actually smart and capable of critical thinking, but they turn it off when it's not something related to their schoolwork or their job. Essentially, they are smart but they're not intellectuals. They don't care to think deeply about any issue that they aren't being evaluated on, and they revert to tribalism, sloganeering, and having to feel like they're on the right side of history. They also have a lot of undue respect for activists because the liberal/progressive parts of society tend to laud them, and so they feel like they have to be activists to be respected as someone who cares about the world beyond their narrow careers. A lot of popular culture denigrates those who are narrowly focused on their own lives and careers, and so showing that they care beyond those things, even in a very unintelligent way, makes them feel more cool.