"The most powerful ally of injustice is ignorance. Unfortunately, those who are ignorance’s most devout practitioners are so clueless that they perpetuate their own downfall.
In general, people think they are smarter than they really are. This is called 'illusory superiority.' Polls show that 65% of Americans believe they are smarter than the average person."
A word about #ADL: As with most organizations, I don’t agree with every position they take. But when Musk accuses the most organized voice against #antisemitism in the U.S. of costing him ad revenue, he is leaning on a most #antisemitic dog whistle (that Jews control the media) and he most definitely knows it. 1/2
The Supreme Court Is Infected With the ‘Most Damaging’ Human Bias
It’s not the justices’ politics that are making them unpopular. It’s their overconfidence.
Nobel Prize-winning psychologist Daniel Kahneman has called the “most damaging” of all human biases: overconfidence. Put simply, today’s justices possess a frightening degree of certainty that they can alone answer society’s most pressing problems with just the right lawyerly argument.