Charlie Kirk’s murder demonstrates how the credentialed class keeps itself ignorant

See The Left’s Vast Lack of Knowledge by Barton Swaim. Excerpts:

"A day later the Times issued a correction: “An earlier version of this article described incorrectly an antisemitic statement that Charlie Kirk had made on an episode of his podcast. He was quoting a statement from a post on social media and went on to critique it. It was not his own statement.”"

"Progressive commentators insisting, days after his assassination, that his killer was a Republican"

"A columnist at the Washington Post, meanwhile, was let go this week after (among other things) posting a quotation of Kirk, the sentence slightly rewritten to make it look as if he were claiming black women generally aren’t as smart as whites. Kirk expressed his views abrasively, but common sense and love of country should have told the columnist that the exponent of such a view wouldn’t attract a mass following in 21st-century America."

"Mr. Haidt recalls conducting a study with two other researchers on how accurately liberals, conservatives and moderates identify one another’s views. The study’s liberal subjects, unsurprisingly, performed the worst. My favorite sentence, on page 287: “When faced with questions such as ‘One of the worst things a person could do is hurt a defenseless animal’ or ‘Justice is the most important requirement for society,’ liberals assumed that conservatives would disagree.”" [Jonathan Haidt, author of the book “The Righteous Mind” (2012).]