Of course, it’s all funny until you remember how many people watched the Candace Owens’ series and thought what she said made sense. Many watched for entertainment purposes, like I did. But there were hundreds of thousands of sincere viewers who took it all completely seriously and nodded sagely when Owens said that Marie Claude was a suspicious name.
These people can’t help it. They were born this way. The intellect is a physical characteristic, like height. You can’t change it by any amount of exertion. And height doesn’t change your life in a fundamental way, not like intelligence does, unless you suffer from actual dwarfism. These are people who are very confused by things that you and I don’t even notice. The world is getting more complicated. There’s now AI that will require increasing levels of discernment. The whole structure of life is changing to benefit those who are better cognitively organized and can exert the greatest self-control. This leaves many people – good, well-meaning people – out in the cold. And it’s not their fault. They were simply born this way.
This is why I laugh at Candace who is rich and will be fine. But for her sincere viewers I feel nothing but kindness and compassion. We accept that “born this way” is real in everything but intelligence. But that’s wrong. It’s unfair and it hurts people. It hurts all of us because we engage with a falsified picture of reality.
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