The most despicable ventures in human history—from the war on the indigenous to eugenics to prison labor—have had "respectable experts" laying out the theory underneath murderous enterprises. And the support of the public that was either too conceited or too tired to object.
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I'd mix in "lacking education" too, as regards inability or unwillingness to object. Example: some politicking and punditry of the last few years has been "The public are sick of these experts and their liberal elite education"
I think this is like ten levels more messed up because the way it is weaponized is not well-intended at all, but at the same time, even I am quite sick of privileged pundit pontification, and I am saying it as a person who has received a privileged education myself.