It bothers me how that in alot of black circles, conspiracy nuts are automatically considered smart

[GodinDaFlesh]

Well, see if you would open ur pineal gland, and charge your melanin in the sun for three hours...

You will see the truth about the moon landing brother

Breh that's exactly the type of shyt she believed

 

[bnew]

folks caught up in superstition too.

 

[Standing on business]

You aren’t lying, some one the recent shyt I’ve been reading on Facebook is sad

 

[Nagarjuna]

Yeah I don't know if this is due to the pandemic and social media or what but the conspiratorialism in the black community has reached new heights smh. shyt is dangerous.

People don't know how to properly vet sources, don't know history, don't know basic science, don't know the scientific method, have massive amounts of (unwarranted) mistrust in certain institutions but will trust a video shared on Facebook from some "doctor" telling you what "they" don't want you to know. At this point I don't even try to argue with people.


And probability and statistics needs to be a requirement in high school

 

[Yinny]

Yeah I don't know if this is due to the pandemic and social media or what but the conspiratorialism in the black community has reached new heights smh. shyt is dangerous.

People don't know how to properly vet sources, don't know history, don't know basic science, don't know the scientific method, have massive amounts of (unwarranted) mistrust in certain institutions but will trust a video shared on Facebook from some "doctor" telling you what "they" don't want you to know. At this point I don't even try to argue with people.


And probability and statistics needs to be a requirement in high school

It’s pretty odd and really makes me want to take a look at what they’re teaching (actual content and themes) especially in predominantly Black schools/the curricula. Would be great if some ed experts got into policy work/really looking at this.

 

[Turk]

OP is right and this shyt really worries me. A lot of Black people are getting sucked into misinformation and peddaling conspiracy bullshyt

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

That’s becuz nikkas will start bringing up historical facts not even related to the conspiracy and if people don’t know history like that it’s easy to fool them. I know. Ive done it before when I was younger


shyt could be about the government been contact with aliens for decades and somebody will say they don’t believe it. All you gotta do is say some shyt like

What you think the Spanish American War was fought for?


Notice how we got more technology in the last 50 years then any other time in human history



But you gotta be real vague and not give direct answers. You gotta say shyt like “the information is out there. I’m not here to educate you”

Matter fact there’s nikkas on this site who do that

the conspiracy nuts on the coli do this

i call the technique vague allusions. it's a very transparent pump fake and they can never elaborate on shyt. the whole strategy is to bombard people with unrelated information and throw them off balance but it don't work on everyone plus it's insulting because they assume that others are too dumb to follow along.

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

It's not about what they are teaching at school. it's about what they are hearing outside of school, from parents friends and accessing on social media

It’s pretty odd and really makes me want to take a look at what they’re teaching (actual content and themes) especially in predominantly Black schools/the curricula. Would be great if some ed experts got into policy work/really looking at this.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

While people who use real facts and logic get ignored or labeled as sheep


Maybe it's just my generation(im 26) but so many black people I have conversations with don't hesitate to believe or spread any misinformation, and will shun anyone with actual facts or knowledge on a situation

shyt is sad

People want to think they have the inside track to hidden knowledge

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

That’s becuz nikkas will start bringing up historical facts not even related to the conspiracy and if people don’t know history like that it’s easy to fool them. I know. Ive done it before when I was younger


shyt could be about the government been contact with aliens for decades and somebody will say they don’t believe it. All you gotta do is say some shyt like

What you think the Spanish American War was fought for?


Notice how we got more technology in the last 50 years then any other time in human history



But you gotta be real vague and not give direct answers. You gotta say shyt like “the information is out there. I’m not here to educate you”

Matter fact there’s nikkas on this site who do that

this is what Tariq does on vaccines. I literally had to make threads on this:

Tariq is 100% wrong on vaccines and indirectly proved science correct on his broadcast
Tariq Nasheed doesn’t get the abortion bill hypocrisy or how vaccines work
Tariq Nasheed doesn't understand federal budget reconciliation or how racially targeted grants work

Dudes take legit HISTORY and project with INCOMPLETE EDUCATION rampant FALSE INFORMATION

Imagine Harriet Tubman pointing to the north star and telling the slaves to follow it as a guide to freedom and the slaves turn around and say nah the sky is CGI it ain’t real.

We doomed as a people if we don’t make higher education a priority.

There is a reason why the Russians have targeted black people with misinformation campaigns. We lead to much by emotion and not enough critical thinking.

Even with shyt like the Tuskegee experiment. People still get that story wrong to this day. Folks really think black men were “given” syphilis. They already had it and went to Tuskegee to get treated but the doctors used them as an experiment to see was syphilis fatal and didn’t treat them and that’s where the malpractice happened

This is the reason. People want to reject the "white narrative" so bad but they have no knowledge, nuance or discernment to replace it with. So they accept any bullshyt that goes against the grain.

COVID = Confirmation Of Vaccine ID

coincidence? no such thing in this REALity

stay woke

why yall think i'm against black people believing in any religions or even being spiritual?

When you're desperate, everything gets put on the table as a possibility.

We can't afford this sort of bullshyt. Its literally holding us back.

 

[Yinny]

It's not about what they are teaching at school. it's about what they are hearing outside of school, from parents friends and accessing on social media

I know what you’re getting at in terms of who people listen to and spheres of influence (I had a relative tell me “Black people can’t/don’t get Covid” before we went on to be disproportionately impacted by it), but much of it actually does have to do with how they’re teaching young people to think and the difference between accepting the value of evidence/facts and expounding versus “well someone I respect said it so I’ll take on that opinion/falsehood.” Questioning some things is fine and healthy, but disputing well-documented facts is another realm.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

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The Sun is 400 times larger than the Moon, but also 400 times farther away than the Moon from Earth​

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

I know what you’re getting at in terms of who people listen to and spheres of influence (I had a relative tell me “Black people can’t/don’t get Covid” before we went on to be disproportionately impacted by it), but much of it actually does have to do with how they’re teaching young people to think and the difference between accepting the value of evidence/facts and expounding versus “well someone I respect said it so I’ll take on that opinion/falsehood.” Questioning some things is fine and healthy, but disputing well-documented facts is another realm.

thing is people misunderstand education as being something that is instilled rather that sought after.

best learning happens when there is a pursuit of knowledge. teachers can't hammer anything in to a non receptive student. the best way kids learn is when they are curious and seeking knowledge. education was already faltering before conspiracies became mainstream. now it's just more of a hinderance. just taking this forum as an example i would say a large number of posters demonstrate everyday that they don't know how to receive and comprehend information. they don't vet their sources before they share sus shyt. no fact checking. pull the wrong information from articles constantly then get mad about shyt they misunderstood, comprehension is a big obstacle here whenever articles are posted you see it. at bare minimum i'd argue that a lot of people here never did well with those aspects in school. combine that with the age of most posters being above high school age and you can see that these issue have possibly been ongoing for a while.

 

[Sauce Dab]

the conspiracy nuts on the coli do this

i call the technique vague allusions. it's a very transparent pump fake and they can never elaborate on shyt. the whole strategy is to bombard people with unrelated information and throw them off balance but it don't work on everyone plus it's insulting because they assume that others are too dumb to follow along.

Yep and anytime you ask them for links or sources they hit you with the

 

[Malcolmxxx_23]

Even ig thots will post something like this