There is so much confused thinking about thinking.
It is some people’s belief that all you have to do to fix a social problem is ‘teach them this’, ‘re-educate them about that’, or ‘de-radicalise them to our viewpoint’. I am not speaking to people’s good intentions with these ideas – it is their naivety combined with their ignorance wrapped in a shroud of pride with which I have concerns.
Politicians make this mistake regularly in a very circular way.
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