My mother; but, to be fair, she’s a Haitian immigrant who got to witness (and vote for) America’s first ever black president so…you know.

For your average person, I’d have to agree with you (in my experience).

(*methinks, if you wanted to do an exact quote)

Yessssss, Guix covert.

I know it’s largely due to my own fanaticism regarding Guile but I think it’s such a great distro and feels like it never gets mentioned, anywhere.

Yeah; entirely agreed. Part of why I quoted the parts that cover what the judge actually says. It’s a good ruling; useless headline.

Not of Greek origin but I hope you’re using “gooses”.

I mean, I think it’s complicated; there is something to be said about the intentional suppression of education that the right has studiously (ironically) worked on precisely because a less informed population is easier to manipulate, etc.

I don’t think it absolves them of fault (I insatiably read every Leopards Ate My Face story as much as the next person; no lie).

I’d, also, contemplate that it’s maybe not sufficiently explained by just lack of critical thinking if they’re on their third round of voting for him.

I just meant that – if your argument is that they weren’t taught critical thinking – it, definitionally, can’t be stupidity but ignorance because stupidity is when you knew full-well and better while ignorance is when you don’t know something.

(I also think there’s an unintentional leaning, on Lemmy, towards a eugenics-sympathetic “well, these people are just constitutionally stupid and that’s just the way they are” relatively often (though the current state of the world makes it a bit understandable). I’m not saying OP thinks that but I could see those who’re sympathetic to that worldview easily working with the original statement, as worded; and I think we easily don’t walk into those sort of pitfalls when we’re particular and accurate about our words and definitions (hence, also, why I was pointing out that it can’t be stupidity, definitionally))

I’d argue that’s more ignorance, than stupidity; you can’t help what you aren’t aware of or weren’t taught.