This might be a controversial take, but I don’t think racist bigotry is an intelligence thing

The study and measure of intelligence itself is a piece of the rationalization of racism.

We owe a lot of our scientific inheritance to genociders and racists and eugenicists - I wouldn’t be quick to assume the MAGA base is just a bunch of dimwitted Americans.

Using “subhuman” for persons while arguing against eugenics…

You can’t make that stuff up

everyone thinks they are the leopard eating faces until a bigger leopard eats their face.

Just a reminder, there were “Jews for Hitler”. We can guess what happened to them after hitler rose to power.

I’m not saying America is the center of world intellectualism, but you’re also getting quite a selection bias since “stupid American” stories are even popular to other Americans.

I thought that same

But actually, after visiting Denver I was super surprised by how friendly and normal people were

I’d easily live there (and no, I’m not a weed smoker. Never tried it, no plans to, do doesn’t influence my decision)

Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. - George Carlin

Great man, that George Carlin, great man.