beauty contest
Image says: leftism leaving people's bodies as soon as someone struggled with reading and remembering basic facts. End of text. The inage below shows a blue ghost figure floating out of someone's body.
If someone doesn't know basic politics, mocking them isn't going to make them want to learn. It will make them feel ashamed and associate learning with guilt and other bad feelings.
When people say "I wasn't taught this in school" sometimes they really didn't pay attention and are embarrassed. Some are deflecting because society makes you feel embarrassed for being ignorant. Learning shouldn't be paired with guilt.
When people say "I wasn't taught this in school" they might also be talking about how they couldn't remember it because it wasn't taught in a way they understand.
It is our responsibilities as an adult to learn history, politics, etc, but please be patient with those who genuinely don't know where to start or don't know what topics to look up. If it shocks you so much that someone doesn't know something (and they are being genuine and not just "playing dumb"), send them accessible information you want them to know. Or atleast tell them the major events they should research.
Not saying to hold their hand and walk them through it, not saying to shrug it off if they're using their ignorance as an excuse to be a bigot, not saying you have to go out of your way to do the research for them. But please just be more compassionate. You aren't better than "stupid" people.
To be clear: not being able to remember details about basic history and politics is something that intellectually disabled people face. Sometimes we need to relearn the same thing over and over. Don't be mean about it.
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