wazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agoCould the dogwhistle blow any louder?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-down1imageCould the dogwhistle blow any louder?lemmy.worldwazoobonkerbrain@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 19 days agomessage-square61fedilink
minus-squareMartinphipps@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoTo be fair, you can say the same thing about white people. Some of us aren’t smart.
minus-squareTomAwsm@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoYou can say the same thing about almost any group of people. But you shouldn’t.
minus-squareunemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agowhat! gladys! vernon is over here with his gibberish! can you tell him to tell her to tell that internet person to SPEAK LOUDER
minus-squareMystikIncarnate@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·19 days agoI’d rather quote MIB: “a person is smart, people are stupid, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”
minus-squarecrapwittyname@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoHere’s a related one: the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters ~Terry Pratchett
minus-squareAngry_Autist (he/him)@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·19 days agoBut you CAN say it about ALL people, and it rings true even there. Across all classes, ethnic groups, political ideologies, religions or lack thereof: A good chunk of humanity is just pants-on-head stupid. More than we want to admit.
To be fair, you can say the same thing about white people. Some of us aren’t smart.
You can say the same thing about almost any group of people. But you shouldn’t.
what! gladys! vernon is over here with his gibberish! can you tell him to tell her to tell that internet person to SPEAK LOUDER
I’d rather quote MIB: “a person is smart, people are stupid, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.”
Here’s a related one:
~Terry Pratchett
But you CAN say it about ALL people, and it rings true even there.
Across all classes, ethnic groups, political ideologies, religions or lack thereof: A good chunk of humanity is just pants-on-head stupid. More than we want to admit.