• ILoveUnions@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      No, it’s a willful denial of reality problem. How they work, why they’re needed are basic things taught in almost every school in the states. Students intentionally ignore it.

    • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldBanned from community
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      2 months ago

      Well, yes, but if you see people die in front of you, that’s another form of “education”.

    • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca
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      2 months ago

      Yes, but also no.

      You can’t educate people who won’t listen, believe the information you give them, or learn.

      Willful ignorance is extremely common. I work in tech and I have persistent memories of people refusing to learn the most basic shit to help themselves, or change their behavior because “their way” doesn’t work anymore, then insist I find a workaround so they can continue to do it whatever backwards way they’ve been doing it.

      I once asked a user to open a folder on a shared drive on a server and I shit you not, they opened fucking word, went to open and browsed from there to the server.

      That’s the only way that they knew to get to the fucking files.

      People are fucking stupid, won’t learn, refuse to be taught, and want to remain as uneducated as they possibly can, knowing just enough to continue being employed.

    • GreenShimada@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      Well, education in terms of exposure. “Practical education” to understand the threats and consequences. Just saying “ya gonna die” is too abstract.

      You can go to northern Nigeria right now and see people, especially kids, with shriveled legs who got polio because 20 years ago when a conspiracy theory pushed that George W Bush hated Muslims and poisoned the polio vaccinations. Families hid their children when vaccination teams came around. Turns out the polio was the poison all along!

      And this is what these people want BACK. Because no one showed them these pictures and said “you will curse your children to be treated like creatures if they even survive.”