• hydroptic
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    9 months ago

    Being educated and privileged doesn’t mean someone’s smart

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      9 months ago

      Being perceived as “smartis a privilege, and it’s just as irrelevant to being anti-vaxx as all the other privileges are (in fact, many of those who someone like you might not perceive as “smart” - disabled people, and specifically autistic people, are the open target of anti-vaxx propaganda that frames us as an undesirable thing to be, for, amongst other things, not being “smart”). So I’ll say it again - tons of well educated and otherwise privileged people are anti-vaxxers, and pretending otherwise isn’t just classist and ableist, it’s also just plain wrong and counterproductive.

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        9 months ago

        The blog post you linked to seems to conflate intelligence with IQ and then use that to draw the conclusion that the whole concept of intelligence is a myth and ableist. That idea seems like, well, nonsense. I really don’t see how it’s ableist to acknowledge that everybody’s cognitive skills aren’t exactly the same

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          Progressive thought keeps running into fascists using things like IQ studies to argue for genocidal policies and tends to react by throwing the whole thing out the door because otherwise everyone needs to spend five hundred words just defining basic terminology for the discussion.