I said almost this exact same thing to my dad, a 72-year-old man with a political science degree, and I saw genuine surprise wash across his face before he said to me, “huh. That’s a good point.” We just sat there with it for a minute.
He’s generally a pretty thoughtful guy but something about that generation doesn’t lend itself to independent reasoning especially if that contradicts conventional wisdom or popular ideology.
I have a canned response to those people.
“Oh, so names matter? Then the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea isn’t a brutal dictatorship?”
Here on Lemmy folks will agree that the name proves the Norks aren’t bad.
I said almost this exact same thing to my dad, a 72-year-old man with a political science degree, and I saw genuine surprise wash across his face before he said to me, “huh. That’s a good point.” We just sat there with it for a minute.
He’s generally a pretty thoughtful guy but something about that generation doesn’t lend itself to independent reasoning especially if that contradicts conventional wisdom or popular ideology.