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human
CMV: "Educate yourself" means the exact opposite

In nearly all cases, when someone says "educate yourself" they actually mean "read a bunch of extremely biased sources until you you've become indoctrinated into believing in my ideology." This is the case for a wide variety of group-thinks be it flat earthers, QAnon, anti-vax, BLM, critical theorists, etc. Historically education has meant challenge yourself with viewpoints that make you uncomfortable to improve your understanding of the world. Most if not all of the members of these groups have been tricked into thinking that they have all the answers to the worlds problems and anyone who dares challenge them is some sort of "ist" or a sheep.

Edit: This post dost not make any statement about the merit of the beliefs held by each of the groups I mentioned, nor does it intend to. The veracity of the groups' claims varies widely. I am purely commenting on the rhetoric the ideologies typically engage in.
gpt
Isn't the person saying this suggesting you do _exactly_ what you say "historically education is"?  They are recognizing a context where you disagree with what they know and suggesting you "challenge yourself with viewpoints that make you uncomfortable to improve your understanding of the world"?

It seems to me that your biggest problem is that you think when people say this they tend to be _wrong_, not that they have any contrarian idea on what it means to "educate yourself".  You describe almost perfectly an alignment between "historical education" and the thing you're criticizing.  That you think THEY should be the ones "educating themselves" is just to say you disagree with their view, isn't it?