I fully expect to come back to this post with plenty of Lemmy-tastic comments along the lines of “The people are tired of experts”, but left-leaning instead of right.

  • GooberEar
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    17 hours ago

    I grew up poor in the southern part of the USA. Anti-intellectualism is a core tenant of most of the common religions in this region, which trend heavily towards evangelical christianity. One of my earliest formative memories is being called a “Scientologist” and getting condemned to hell because I believed in evolution. Lots to unpack there, I know.

    On the other hand, I somewhat regularly get accused of using AI to write my comments/replies on various social media platforms, something which I have absolutely never done. Simply writing in my typical style, even with all the poor grammar and misspellings, is enough to make all the Dunning-Kruger mother fuckers crawl out of their basement long enough to make accusations against me.