(04-03-2023, 08:48 AM)The Real Marty Wrote:

(04-03-2023, 08:45 AM)homebiscuit Wrote: It’s scary. Like the poster who ventured in here the other day and posted how Trump had shut down an “African American school” because he’s a raayyyycist. None of it was true yet he didn’t question it at all. He simply believed it wholesale because he was told so. 

To be fair, there’s an equal amount on the right who are as ignorant. This is the result of the decline of journalism and the rise of activism in our schools. Critical thinking is becoming more scarce by the day.

I think the problem is social media.  It allows things to get pushed out into the public eye where a lot of people grab it and run with it.  There's more than one person on this message board who posts whatever tweet he comes across that he likes, without any critical thinking or fact checking at all.  Winston Churchill said a lie can get halfway around the world before the truth gets its pants on.  And that was before social media.

There are people on this message board who are thoughtful and take care about what they say and post, but there are others who throw spaghetti at the wall and when none of it sticks, they just go get some more and throw it on the wall.  It's like they can't compete intellectually, so they just throw rocks.  

Lucky2Last uses facts and reason, and even though we are at opposite ends on many issues, that is still a respectable way to operate.  But others?  Just trash talk, and spaghetti throwing.