… it’s about skeptical vs gullible.
Is it, though?
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TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 days ago
it’s not about smart vs stupid. it’s about skeptical vs gullible.
plenty of very smart people are gullible. and most people are gullible because it’s ‘nice’.
most of us who are skeptical are see as cold, mean, and anti-social. hence to be pro-social you have to be ‘stupid’ and believe in the nonsense everyone else is going on about.
Hossenfeffer@feddit.uk 3 days ago
MNByChoice@midwest.social 2 days ago
Yes. Though gullible people are often stupid. Skeptical people are not necessarily smart, but have learned to not believe everything said to them.
meliaesc@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I haven’t seen this perspective before. What makes you think healthy skepticism needs to be demeaning or rude?
bitjunkie@lemmy.world 3 days ago
They’re saying skeptics are perceived that way, not that they necessarily are acting that way. Just that other people clock you as “not nice” when you don’t always take what they say at face value.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 days ago
yep. they don’t like being questioned or doubted. especially so if they are spouting bullshit and lies.
SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space 3 days ago
Learning can be uncomfortable, and one persons sources of motivation could be another persons’s trigger points for mis-associated signals for impending stress or injury.
AeonFelis@lemmy.world 3 days ago
The conmen whom you question will make the effort to color your skepticism as demeaning and rude.
TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 3 days ago
it isn’t.
but people interpret it that way. because it’s not ‘friendly’ to ask questions or be skeptical.