cross-posted from: https://discuss.online/post/27181087
The idiocy goes right over their heads
this post was submitted on 17 Sep 2025
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That idea wouldn’t work. People tend to become less conservative after they’re educated.
Unless you're stubborn and addicted to ignorance.
Or you’re getting paid not to
There are still plenty of conservative people in higher education. I unfortunately know MDs (usually surgeons...) who are even against M4A, are racist, sexist, etc.
There may be an academic name for it, but I call it the Min-Max Effect. Technical experts in demanding fields (medicine, law, engineering, etc.) frequently spend all their time and effort learning and developing their technical expertise, at the expense of everything else. This creates a lot of brilliant doctors, lawyers, engineers, etc., who are absolutely clueless about anything outside their specialty.
It's probably not helped by the fact that school for those fields is quite expensive, so we might expect those who grew up wealthy to be more likely to graduate; poorer students rely on scholarships and loans, and even part time work.
every once in a while you end up in an ER where they aren't just throwing around gallows humor, they're being downright ableist. that's a whole different kind of fun.
Yeah, That's probably one of the worst ones anywhere but particularly in Healthcare areas not specific to the condition(s). It tends to be a little better if there is a community of people with the condition in the area.