How about also making sure everybody in school learns about argumentation fallacies as well! These arguments are ridiculous.
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Yes, 100%. We need better much education on persuasive writing and how to competently debate ideas.
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yes yes yes
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The number of casual references someone makes to slavery or the Holocaust seems inversely related to their understanding of history.
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Totally agree.
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This. It also bears mentioning that this applies even if your disagreement with public health measures is justified. Like I think the aggressive ticketing of vulnerable people in many Ontario cities is a scandal, but it is not genocide or slavery.
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Exactly. All injustice doesn't automatically equal the worst imaginable violation of human rights. Ideas like these are clearly coming from people who have never had to think deeply about injustice. That may be why these anti-lockdown protests are so overwhelmingly white.
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OMG. Not surprised, I guess, in light of all these other completely ridiculous comparisons.
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Or critical thinking. Certainly we have failed in teaching people to think critically
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