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Society faces peril when smart people believe dumb things...says the Guardian

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RoyalCorgi · 16/02/2024 09:44

This is Gaby Hinsliffe in the Guardian, writing about the Labour candidate in Rochdale who believed a conspiracy theory about Israel.

For some reason, she hasn't thought to apply the same argument to her colleagues who believe that men can be women.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/rochdale-azhar-ali-israel-conspiracy-theories-labour

Let's all take a moment to enjoy the irony.

Learn this from the Rochdale debacle: society faces peril when smart people believe dumb things | Gaby Hinsliff

Azhar Ali’s parroting of anti-Israel conspiracy theories is not a warning just for Labour – there’s a lesson in it for everyone, says Guardian columnist Gaby Hinsliff

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/16/rochdale-azhar-ali-israel-conspiracy-theories-labour

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ImARubbishNickKnowles · 16/02/2024 09:45

So close, so Liew.

anothernamitynamenamechange · 16/02/2024 09:51

There's a lesson in it for everyone

Except us at the Grauniad. Obvs...

cerisepanther73 · 16/02/2024 09:53

I agree with the title of this thought provoking insightful article

I think it's just a reaction to weirdly turbulent times we are living at the rise of far fetched conspiracies theories mindset...

UltraLiteLife · 16/02/2024 09:54

Agreed, OP.

Gurwinder Bhogal

When intelligent people affiliate themselves to ideology, their intellect ceases to guard against wishful thinking, and instead begins to fortify it, causing them to inadvertently mastermind their own delusion, and to very cleverly become stupid.

twitter.com/G_S_Bhogal/status/1061011900278980608

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