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Based on the people that I have met in my life I wonder how people with such shitty politics and views on marginalized communities can have so many friends and be so smart in STEM, the intelligetsia? (lemmy.ml)
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Like you might think that abstract intelligence and social intelligence might carry over solidarity instead of making people more shitty in that regard. How does that even work? Why does people like that coast in life while those who they seem lesser than them suffer?

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[–] Robert_Kennedy_Jr@hexbear.net 22 points 4 weeks ago

I have a vivid memory of a guy I went to high school with complaining on FB 15 years ago about how he had a bachelors degree and should be trusted to make informed decisions on whether to vaccinate his child, his degree was in graphic design.