You don’t have to look far to see examples of the absence of critical thinking on the left. I saw this headline today:
Jane Fonda Believes the Climate Crisis is Exacerbated by Racism
Hanoi Jane recently appeared on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” and was asked how she branched out to other areas of activism. “Well, you know, you can take anything – sexism, racism, misogyny, homophobia, whatever, the war,” the actress said. “And if you really get into it, and study it and learn about it and the history of it and everything’s connected. There’d be no climate crisis if it wasn’t for racism.”
WHAT?
So this current snowstorm in Central WI is related to skin color and the pigment of our skin is to blame for a sunny, hot summer day in Wisconsin?
I was at the grocery store the other day and I remarked to the person stocking lettuce in the produce department how frustrating it was to see the high price of groceries.
“Oh, I think it’s because of climate change,” she witlessly stated.
That is the absence of critical thinking skills.
Here’s the opposite:
“To think incisively and to think for one’s self is very difficult. We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half-truths, prejudices, and propaganda. At this point, I often wonder whether or not education is fulfilling its purpose. A great majority of the so-called educated people do not think logically and scientifically. Even the press, the classroom, the platform, and the pulpit in many instances do not give us objective and unbiased truths. To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically.” – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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