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After a week of far-right rioting fuelled by online misinformation, the British government is to change the school curriculum so English schoolchildren are taught critical thinking skills to tackle it (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 17 points 6 months ago

Critical thinking is being able to question things and figure out if it's bullshit basically.