The Berean
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I see it as a lack of perspective, of experience, of historical knowledge
to view today's micro-inequities in isolation, without the knowledge of where we've been and how far we've come, without the balancing of the true injustices and atrocities of the past, is to afford them a degree of importance that they don't deserve
remember last year's uproar over the Covington High kids and the indian activist at the Lincoln memorial?
Idiot leftists online were eager to destroy Nick Sandmann and his family because of a perceived "smirk" - there were calls to physically assault him, to pressure his parents' employers into firing them, to burn down the school with the kids locked inside
because of a "smirk"
I seriously think that social media has made us all, as a society, dumber, by giving a voice to the truly moronic, an amplified voice that would be easily disregarded in real life
most people don't understand that half of all Americans have IQ's less than 100 and 9% have IQ's less than 80
and I used to get a huge kick out of the emotional response I'd get here from the more dimwitted when I'd point out that more than half of black americans have IQ's less than 100
The first point is clearly true. Most people never actually study history so they are ignorant of the past.
I believe social media feeds narcissism. A lot of people want to feel special and think they are special because they have 100K followers on Twitter. But the vast majority of these "influencers" have no real life accomplishments that would truly inspire others.
I live in California and my home state has devolved into a progressive wasteland. People are leaving in droves and California has the highest rate of homelessness in the US.