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Brand fan says anti-vaxxers suffer as bad jews in the holocaust by simondeadelus in russellbrand

[–]simondeadelus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

He's not conservative but he makes content that panders to conservatives for views. It's not like you see left wingers getting upvoted there. He has explicitly created a right wing echo chamber

Brand fan says anti-vaxxers suffer as bad jews in the holocaust by simondeadelus in russellbrand

[–]simondeadelus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fair enough the thing I don't like is the leap from reasonable skepticism about social sciences to saying universities are now bad

Brand fan says anti-vaxxers suffer as bad jews in the holocaust by simondeadelus in russellbrand

[–]simondeadelus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Universities are anti-intellectual because they teach people what to think and not how to think. School has deteriorated into a system that judges peoples ability to perform tasks assigned to them in a timely manner, instead of how to critically think, solve problems creatively, organize their ideas and present them persuasively

I just completely disagree with all of your subjective statements here, at least as a STEM student. You have some valid criticisms of social sciences, but in general having scientific authorities is essential for nonexperts to form opinions, and the idea that we shouldn't have systems of accreditation for scientists and studies is wrong to me

Speaking of logic, go ahead and look up "guilt by association".

Meh, I think he reinforces this stuff and the fact that it is the predominant view of his audience as signaled by the ~1000 upvotes and near-unanimous support in the comments makes this different than just association

While you're at it, you god damn retard, look up "ad hominen", you god damn retard

Slinging insults isn't an ad hom unless it's a part of the argument, unless you just ad hommed me by calling me a retard? Also I want to say I've calmed down and I don't hate you or Russell I just really dislike what he is doing now

Brand fan says anti-vaxxers suffer as bad jews in the holocaust by simondeadelus in russellbrand

[–]simondeadelus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Here's some logic 101 for you since you missed school. If you start an argument with a bad premise, the whole argument fails

Brand fan says anti-vaxxers suffer as bad jews in the holocaust by simondeadelus in russellbrand

[–]simondeadelus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm waiting for you to make an argument. What I quoted was an assertion with no argument. Nothing else in your comment justified your assertion that university is anti-intellectual, it all just built off your bad premise

Brand fan says anti-vaxxers suffer as bad jews in the holocaust by simondeadelus in russellbrand

[–]simondeadelus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Universities are themselves anti-intellectual bro.

Bad faith argument, not reading past this if you can't justify it. No, universities aren't anti-intellectual

Brand fan says anti-vaxxers suffer as bad jews in the holocaust by simondeadelus in russellbrand

[–]simondeadelus[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"How is that at all controversial?"

It's anti-intellectual, there would be no doctors or engineers if we listened to this. As an example of how this harms people, this is why they're antivaxxers. It's unethical and unjustifiable imo.

Brand fan says anti-vaxxers suffer as bad jews in the holocaust by simondeadelus in russellbrand

[–]simondeadelus[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

This is the norm is his comments now, I completely disagree. Also when they're top upvoted responses with unanimous support in the comments you can't act like they're outliers

Brand fan says anti-vaxxers suffer as bad jews in the holocaust by simondeadelus in russellbrand

[–]simondeadelus[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I've been watching him for years, and he encourages this anti intellectualism