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Re: Truth =/= knowledge
« Reply #15 on: September 15, 2022, 08:22:40 pm »
I disagree. The problem is not with using the word "idiot", but with how we define the word. You are the one agreeing with the Western definition:

"If we use the word "idi*t", then the "white" colonialist and Israelis are not "idi*t" people, seeing that they intelligent enough to make advanced weaponry, education, and machinery to oppress the rest of the world."

What you just described (in bold) is the idiotic behaviour. Going back to the etymology:

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private person

Making advanced weaponry/education/machinery does not improve the world overall (quite the contrary), but merely allows those possessing these things to gain a temporal advantage over those who do not yet possess it. This is behaviour with private (ie. selfish) interests in mind, thus idiocy.

Again, go back to the air conditioner analogy:

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/decolonized-housing-(america-edition)/msg14085/#msg14085

https://trueleft.createaforum.com/issues/decolonized-housing-(america-edition)/msg14831/#msg14831

Only an idiot would, wanting cooler air, install something which further heats the air, but merely pumps it outside the room. This is the epitome of private thinking, and thus of idiocy.

"And the "idi*t" people are the colonized and oppressed people like us."

No. If we are the ones receiving the hot air from the air conditioner, we are not necessarily idiots. We would only be idiots if we responded by installing another air conditioner pumping in the opposite direction to compete against the initial air conditioner (consequently heating the air even more). In contrast, if we responded by breaking into the idiot's room to destroy the initial air conditioner and kill the idiot, we would be anti-idiots.