97 points

Yeah these fuckin nerds are using logic and thought to understand the world.

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How dare they fixate on topics I think are remedial.

Almost like they are stepping stones.

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1 point

“Emotions are not facts”

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Just so I understand this correctly, is this a post mocking 20-something year olds by showing topics they believe to be niche, complex, or exclusive to an intelligent audience? And that by understanding these topics they are “propped up” compared to their peers?

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50 points

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9 points

Offtopic: does anyone know the name of this meme or knowyourmeme reference? Thanks

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16 points

Try “Two Soyjaks pointing”

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8 points

Image of average Redditor that feels the inclination to write “fuck Spez” every 5 minutes on the Internet

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3 points

I’m still confused

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Maybe I’m a dork, but I think“correlation does not equal causation” is actually a good thing to keep in mind.

I’m reminded of it every time a news story says something is “linked” to something else. I hate it when the word “linked” is used in this way. It’s often lazy journalism and/or a scare tactic. Saying that two things are “linked” implies a stronger relationship than may actually exist. I find it deliberately misleading.

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Almost everything on the picture is a good thing to keep in mind. But the creator of the meme depicted it as a thought of a soyjack so there is nothing can be done, we now should abandon that logic entirely.

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It’s at its worst when a paper describes how they account for correlation or designed their experiment to confirm causation, but someone doesn’t read the paper and says the line anyway.

You don’t need to read the paper but don’t try to act smart if you can’t be bothered.

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That and “this is worthless, they only tested 10 000 people” are the worst

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I mostly agree with you, but it’s often used as a phrase to shut down further discussion even when there could be an invisible third event that’s the cause for the two seemingly unrelated events. It’s gets over used by people who want to be quick to sound smart.

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That phrase is used exactly to say that there is a third unseen force influencing both events. It’d be pretty strange to use that phrase to say the opposite.

Typically further discussion of the 3rd event isn’t relevant, because they’re not trying to find the cause, they’re trying to disprove a hypothesis.

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4 points

I’ve seen it used to end discussions. People repeat the wisdom of the phrase without understanding what you just said.

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56 points

I don’t see anything wrong with any of it. Why is thinking or speaking of any of those things being framed as a negative?

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Exactly, thinking and talking about these things is perfectly alright and at 20 they are all quite new to you, so it’s very reasonable to be excited about them.

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12 points

How dare young people not appreciate the intricacies and nuance of the world? Harrumph! I say.

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29 points

None of those things are negatives, this is just anti-intellectualism. Maybe OP has been corrected by douches in the past. The conspiracy theorist in me thinks OP is trying to normalize shaming critical thinking while finding like-minded individuals.

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Or this is an attempt at even more critical thinking, i.e. “These are fine concepts, but if you don’t reckon with the context of what you’re talking about before throwing one of these out because it kinda fits you actually bring conversations down and keep people from exchanging more pertinent ideas and information.”

They probably could have communicated that better if that was their intent, but that’d probably kill any humor potential which was probably more of a priority here.

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5 points

I think you’re being extremely generous to OP.

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You must be fun at parties. Maybe it’s just self-deprecating humour?

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1 point

I mean, I don’t talk propaganda at parties, do you?

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Yeah I’ve noticed an uptick in atheists on lemmy recently, I don’t support religon at all because of dogma but I also will never support atheism either

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13 points

What does any of that have to do with atheism?

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5 points

He’s stereotyping atheists as the kind of people to act the way the character in the meme does.

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The athiest Community particularly on reddit liked to frame things negatively and mock and attack people through generalisations

This image shares that and that’s what I noticed and decided to make my comment on that

I probably should have mentioned in my previous comment that I noticed the similarities

These topics mentioned in the image have no reason to be framed in a negative light because they are not inherently negative

Anyone can use them for any intention, good or bad

And some of them can be used in discussion about scientific topics

I’ve noticed that athiests claim they support science but they still mock and attack anyone using science to constructively criticise them or scientific claims they support

Science needs to have criticism, praise and discussion from all sides, not just one

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So you’re an atheist, right?

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No I’m not

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I mean, a lot of these things are good things to consider/know about. For example, you do always have to consider that correlation is not necessarily causation. They’re not really considering the most deep of philosophy, but thinking is generally better than not thinking.

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I bet OP thinks that Ben Shapiro qualifies as “thinker”

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That’s basically what this post is

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Oh my god, that’s something that gets under my skin so very quickly and it’s sadly so common. It’s such a specifically arrogant kind of strawmanning where you’re telling someone else what they think sometimes even in direct contradiction to what they say. Like “you’re just jealous” or “you just want to ____”. It just reeks of anti-intellectualism and everyone is worse off with every use. We desperately need more people to learn the principles of philosophy, and maybe even more specifically of epistemology.

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