No. They believe they have an informed opinion, so anyone who sees it differently must have an uninformed opinion rooted in prejudice, partial information etc.
This is partly a product of the culture and it is part of why I turned down my scholarship and spent two decades as a homemaker. I was one of the top students at my high school and it was an incredibly poisonous experience.
Raising kids was a wonderful antidote to this shit. It helped me develop mental models concerning the superior density and value of local information, even in cases where a person has substantially less formal education.
In other words, my inarticulate 2 year old knew more about his situation than I did, never mind his lack of education and challenges in communicating it. Disrespecting his knowledge was guaranteed to go bad places. The challenge was in serving as an effective resource for him instead of simply trying to lord it over him.
This is partly a product of the culture and it is part of why I turned down my scholarship and spent two decades as a homemaker. I was one of the top students at my high school and it was an incredibly poisonous experience.
Raising kids was a wonderful antidote to this shit. It helped me develop mental models concerning the superior density and value of local information, even in cases where a person has substantially less formal education.
In other words, my inarticulate 2 year old knew more about his situation than I did, never mind his lack of education and challenges in communicating it. Disrespecting his knowledge was guaranteed to go bad places. The challenge was in serving as an effective resource for him instead of simply trying to lord it over him.