It isn’t even a question of intelligence. Plenty of objectively smart people supported Iraq and Afghanistan.
A lot of this boils down to white supremacy and the colonial drive to dominate the globe.
lower quarter of people who are probably dumber than anyone
That’s not how uniform distributions work. The population isn’t equally weighted. Something like 80% of the population is indistinguishably intelligent, with the outlayers still being highly susceptible to social pressure and confirmation bias.
If anything “smart” people are more prone to bigotry, due to their more sensitive pattern recognition.
It isn’t even a question of intelligence. Plenty of objectively smart people supported Iraq and Afghanistan.
A lot of this boils down to white supremacy and the colonial drive to dominate the globe.
That’s not how uniform distributions work. The population isn’t equally weighted. Something like 80% of the population is indistinguishably intelligent, with the outlayers still being highly susceptible to social pressure and confirmation bias.
If anything “smart” people are more prone to bigotry, due to their more sensitive pattern recognition.