Bill Nye Group Mentality

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Sometimes familiar things can be warped and changed in such a way that when we see this familiar thing again, it is no longer familiar, it is no longer how we remembered that particular familiarity. For me, it is Bill Nye. I grew up watching Bill Nye in my science classes and I remember how much more I loved watching his show than the actual class. He always found a way to take banal scientific concepts and explain them to kids in such a cool and captivating way so kids could understand. My science teachers never seemed to have that aptitude. If it were up to little me, Bill Nye would have just substituted the teachers permanently. Unfortunately, Bill Nye has changed, he has warped into somebody that is definitely not Bill Nye the Sciez-zce Guy. …show more content…

This is called group mentality and is a big factor in a society because humans are social animals after all. So when my friend was hearing about all the things happening since Trump won presidency, with Antifa’s (an anarchist group called, “Antifascist”) hypocrisy and ignorant protesters brainwashed by the mainstream media protesting about non-issues, I had to explain to him about group mentality. I explained to him that humans willingly believe things a group believes because they think that if so many peOple act as if a certain thing is true, then it must be true. I told him Antifa is really a domestic terrorist group that silences opposing viewpoints (which is a key defining point of fascism) by violently lashing out and seriously hurting people. This is group mentality to the extreme, which at 5this point would be apt to say is actually mob mentality because they are hitting people in the head with bike locks, stabbing people, and throwing M at innocent Trump supporters under the guise of masks and labelling the other side as fascists. This I explained to him is what happens when group mentality takes a turn for the worse and really brings out the negative side of

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