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[–] Martinphipps@lemmy.world 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

To be fair, you can say the same thing about white people. Some of us aren't smart.

[–] TomAwsm@lemmy.world 19 points 3 months ago (3 children)

You can say the same thing about almost any group of people. But you shouldn't.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I'd rather quote MIB: "a person is smart, people are stupid, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it."

[–] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 4 points 3 months ago

Here's a related one:

the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters

~Terry Pratchett

[–] unemployedclaquer@sopuli.xyz 3 points 3 months ago

what! gladys! vernon is over here with his gibberish! can you tell him to tell her to tell that internet person to SPEAK LOUDER

[–] Angry_Autist@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

But you CAN say it about ALL people, and it rings true even there.

Across all classes, ethnic groups, political ideologies, religions or lack thereof: A good chunk of humanity is just pants-on-head stupid. More than we want to admit.