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[–] edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

Can we not do the IQ meme. IQ is garbage. The meme is calling the republicans dumb, their avatar is made to look bad. And us to be the enlightened communists with high IQ. As if we came to our positions because we were born better, and the republicans came to theirs because they are idiots, and not just regular people responding to material things.

… This might not be worded quite how I want it, I'm eepy. But I hope you all get what I'm trying to say.


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[–] vovchik_ilich@hexbear.net 14 points 2 months ago

While I agree that the meme format would be more moral without the IQ reference, it's not like OP invented the format. Copying formats in memes is useful because known formats are familiar and more likeable, and they're more likely to spread, which is the entire point of commie propaganda.

[–] Enjoyer_of_Games@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

The format still works without the iq graph. I'm sure I've seen variants that weren't iq but depict the same person's understanding changing with experience.

[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 11 points 2 months ago

IQ is used by gene freaks to claim being inherently better but it's not really anything to do with innate ability. IQ scores can be improved with practicing IQ tests like anything else. The problem is really the idea of even measuring "intelligence". What is that? It depends entirely on who you're talking to what intelligence means because intelligence itself is tied to ideology. Any liberal will tell you everyone on Hexbear is not intelligent because we come up with answers that aren't idealism, whereas some sort of marxist take on intelligence might be your capability to analyse things in a material way.

It's a useless metric while everyone has a different take on what intelligence is. People here could score very highly on IQ tests and yet a liberal will still say we're unintelligent. The concept itself is bad.