Like you might think that abstract intelligence and social intelligence might carry over solidarity instead of making people more shitty in that regard. How does that even work? Why does people like that coast in life while those who they seem lesser than them suffer?

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    Most people don’t pick their politics because they reasoned their way there or found some evidence that convinced them. Even otherwise smart people. “smartness” plays little role because most people aren’t reasoning their way into politics or their views on marginalized people.