Most CHUDs didn’t go to underfunded intercity schools with moldy textbooks. They went to well funded suburban middle class schools which, yeah are still US public schools, but still provide better educational opportunities than what most people in the world have.

CHUD aren’t fascists because their social studies teacher was underpaid, they’re fascists because fascism speaks to them and their values. They are fascists at the end of the day because they like being fascists.

And further more, unless you embrace full hard determinism, you have to view these people as culpable to some extend for the awful politics they support. Yeah, none are immune to propaganda, we are shaped by are culture yadda yadda. But I have to think humans have some capacity of will to rise above their social conditioning, if they’re willing didn’t society would never evolve or change for the better.

  • MayoPete [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    I apologize for coming at this from a more emotional place vs. A scientific one. I would have been a very different person if I was just “accepted” by the “normal” people. Instead I was cursed with always being part of the out group. And I get to hyperfocus on politics yaay

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      2 months ago

      I encourage you to consider the value of trying to approach a subject that is important to you scientifically, because that is your best means of trying to do something about it rather than thrash in quicksand.