Not posting a link because the Washington Free Beacon deserves no amplification, but I would propose this as the shittiest shit take of the day.
I kid you not. Except there is no Colton Plowder.
Nor is there a Center for Behavioral Politics and Interspecies Relationship at Brown. brown.edu/academics/cent…
Nor is there a Julietta Baginski at Wroclaw
There is a Wroclaw Medical University ranked 902nd in the world. Incidentally, advanced brain studies is usually called neuroscience or neurobiology
There are more invented experts, some laughably obvious because the Washington Free Beacon knows their Q-sheep will believe anything. Obviously false sources let them claim it's satire but their audience is incapable of the critical thinking to perceive it as satire
And really, do we need anyone to pile on the dog. We have TrumpRegrettist Joe Scarborough talking about putting him down.
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There is a lot that is wrong with the media. Some problems are structural. Some are economic. Some are our own damn fault. There are some things we can do.
Structurally, the media remains very much in the hands of white men. Even though we see more diversity in the public face, there is little progress where the decisions are made.
This study looks at more than the US, but then the structural problems are broader than the US.
Reading "Sisters in Hate" and this made !e think of @eminently_me5
"Everyone has “the potential for resisting false ideas,”a trio of researchers note in a paper about Spinoza’s theory, “but this potential can only be realized when the person has
(a) logical ability, (b) correct information, and (c) motivation and cognitive resources.” No one, it seems, is immune from the psychic glitch of sometimes believing that what’s wrong is right.
Among the chinks in our intellectual armor is a susceptibility to repetition. Research shows that people become more credulous of an idea the more times they encounter it. In what’s known as the illusory truth effect,
Today I learned that some people call their big toe after a racist epithet. Someone nonchalantly called it that in a post with a question in a disease support group. I said "most people call that the big toe so as not to offend" and reported his question to the admins.
Somehow I think it is my comment that will be deleted.
It's ironic that the right finds vindication in WaPo's correction when their media refuses to correct purposeful errors and defends themselves in court by claiming no reasonable person would believe they are telling the truth.
Most recently, Tucker Carlson successfully argued that no one would reasonably believe he is reporting facts.