It's literally that Popper quote I posted some pages back. They think whatever they think is true because they can never error. So because they're neurotic racists/sexists/etc. everyone must be. And everyone else is blinded by ideology, even as they constantly post in ways that proves they don't think of individuals at all or secondary effects or anything else beyond thinking of intent as magic. They don't picture "shutting up and listening" as you learning you were wrong but learning that you didn't know and now the truth has been handed to you that you can just repeat. There's no actual thinking involved in how they picture learning, the truth is just imparted to you from a priest. There's never any point where you have to consider what is true or employ your own skepticism against what you're being told. You either blindly accept (when what you're told comes from a priest) or blindly reject (when what you're told comes from a banned source) and should never question the subjects themselves, only the motives of the sources.
Look at the effort they've put in over the years on there to not just excise the forum of dissenting views but convince everyone else that it's wrong to ever listen to dissenting views and you should never do it.
Even as they time and again run into problems from making these pronouncements like the one against anti-semitism running into the pronouncement about how you can't support anything labeled a genocide. Or both those pronouncements running into the ones about Biden.
That thread is beyond standard anti-intellectualism into outright rejection of thinking. Their argument is that people don't ever encounter things that don't make sense and they want explained before they accept it, instead that's actually the persons latent hatred and bigotry coming out that they're attempting to harm people through seeking understanding. It's literally an argument against achieving understanding, a standard to which they never hold themselves. It's an extensive bad faith attempt to outlaw questioning them while at the same time placing a burden on everyone else to prove they aren't acting with ulterior sinful motives at all times. (Something you can prove only by uncritically accepting everything they say and never dissenting.)
Look at the effort they've put in over the years on there to not just excise the forum of dissenting views but convince everyone else that it's wrong to ever listen to dissenting views and you should never do it.
Even as they time and again run into problems from making these pronouncements like the one against anti-semitism running into the pronouncement about how you can't support anything labeled a genocide. Or both those pronouncements running into the ones about Biden.
That thread is beyond standard anti-intellectualism into outright rejection of thinking. Their argument is that people don't ever encounter things that don't make sense and they want explained before they accept it, instead that's actually the persons latent hatred and bigotry coming out that they're attempting to harm people through seeking understanding. It's literally an argument against achieving understanding, a standard to which they never hold themselves. It's an extensive bad faith attempt to outlaw questioning them while at the same time placing a burden on everyone else to prove they aren't acting with ulterior sinful motives at all times. (Something you can prove only by uncritically accepting everything they say and never dissenting.)
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