It’s from the same mindset as “Millennials eating avocado toast”. There are more millennials who can’t afford to buy an avocado even on a special occasion than there are who eat avocado toast regularly, but the stereotype has stuck.
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At least 3.
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…we’re glad she’s in heaven with her teacher, and she’s with her classmates, and we feel good about that.
Faith in an invisible, unverifiable reward for very real suffering, taken from the writings of a bunch of long-dead, primitive people.
I can almost understand it if she is using faith as an emotional crutch, but beliefs like this make me very pessimistic about the future of humanity.
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Um, I think that is why the woman who believes the conspiracy theories uses that straw man argument. She was mocking one of the parents trying their damnedest to find any silver lining. To me it was willful misinterpretation of the “bargaining” stage of grief as “yay, our kid is now in heaven”.
It was petty and mean-spirited of the True Believer to mock the grief that way with her cherry-picking.
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No! No no no.
The whole point is that today’s world is filled with big scary problems that require extreme expertise and trust in institutions to fix. The reason the US is in this mess is because 40% of the people don’t believe anything beyond what a fourth grader can figure out on their own. Science has been undermined, public health discredited; hell the very idea that good governance is even possible is now largely rejected by that group.
All modern problems are collective action problems. We will not solve climate change, the next pandemic, or anything else until people do accept that things they have not seen directly are real when experts tell them so. Most people do, it’s just a few that don’t and those few are ruining everything for the rest of us.
Edit:
Apologies, I didn’t see your later clarification about what you meant there. I’ll leave my little rant intact anyway because I like to hear myself talk, but I take your meaning now!
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Ah, I see now. For whatever reason I did not catch that on the first read. I wasted all of my rant energy on the wrong target! That’s what I get for distracted participation.
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I wonder what the Venn diagram of false-flaggers, conspiracy theorists, fundamentalists, white nationalists, and Big Lie believers looks like.
I am betting it is pretty much a perfect circle.
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Say what you like about being a school shooting crisis actor, at least it’s steady work.
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First of all a clarification;
1/5 of the small sample group who took a specific poll claim to believe that.
Next:
Lastly; fascist assholes can try gaslighting all they like:
Water is still wet.
Fire is still hot.
Gravity still pulls us down.
And…
Gun violence is still the result of a complete lack of gun control.
Facts are fucking FACTS.
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It’s called " being in denial."
Like how Bill O’Reilly insisted the economic boom of the late 90’s had nothing to do with Clinton but was because of Reagan (of course, if the economy had tanked then it would be Clinton’s fault. . . )
They need the world to be as they want it, not as it is, so observable reality can’t be trusted.
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That must be an out of date version, it still has warnings about Putin in there.
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I would only point out that in any truly randomly sampled assortment of people, about 15% have an IQ of less than 85, and of those, about half are considered “cognitively impaired”.
Except IQ tests are bullshit, aren’t they?
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How about not appeal to racist BS to make a point.
There are plenty of people who probably have “high IQs” who buy into bullshit conspiracy theories. 
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Not only are IQ scores not a good measurement, but if you think that clever people aren’t susceptible to conspiracy theories, you really don’t understand what this is.
Edit: Oops, Mindy got there while I was typing.
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Plus, in my work I meet a lot of people that are are neurologically differently abled and to a person they are the some of the nicest people I know, so I doubt this has anything to do with people that believe this garbage
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In other news.
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I’m more concerned about the 8% who think they could beat an elephant in unarmed combat.
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If they ever get in a situation where they need to test their confidence, one way or another it’s a self-correcting problem.
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