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Selective Stupidity
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Look at how stupid people are! We spent weeks interviewing random passers by, and we found some people who thought that Africa was a country. It's common for some shows and publications to imply that people as a whole (or particular people) are shockingly ignorant by taking amusingly incorrect samples from a vast number of statements. The examples can be found by combing the millions of published statements from public figures for mistakes, or by heading out and interviewing random people until you find someone who makes a mistake, or thinks it would be funny to pretend to. Unfortunately, when shows do this to people from another country it tends to encourage bouts of Misplaced Nationalism, as it feeds the egos of those who believe people from the given country really are that stupid, and contrariwise enrage those from the country in question. Sub-Trope of Manipulative Editing. |
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The satirical news show CNNNN had their roving reporter Julian Morrow in America asking passers-by which country America should invade next by placing flags on a map. A lot of people put their flags on Australia, which had been mislabelled as "Iran", "France" and "North Korea". Watch it here. | |
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The game show Street Smarts bases itself around this trope. Contestants are shown clips of people on the street being quizzed and must predict whether they'll be able to come up with the (usually pretty obvious) correct answers. | |
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Played with in the introduction to Dave Barry Slept Here: | |
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Andre the Black Nerd begins his review of Ghostbusters (2016) by telling the story of the backlash he got for his review of the film's trailer, which came from both sides who each chose to only focus on one half of his review that took a middle-ground "positives and negatives" approach: | |
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An early episode of The Man Show had the hosts collecting signatures from women to "End Women's Suffrage," just by phrasing it as if "suffrage" was a synonym for "suffering." To their credit, they did show several people pointing out how dumb that is and trying to correct people who had been duped, demonstrating that not everyone they met was ignorant enough to fall for it. | |
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The Election Chaser and its follow-up specials had vox pops about the coming election from people, most of whom appear to be drunk, followed by the caption "This Person Votes/Voted." | |
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In The Chaser's War On Everything, their American correspondent Chris Firth roamed the streets of New York asking people the date of the 9/11 attacks. Not the year, but the date. Some people got it wrong! | |
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Jay Leno's tenure as host of The Tonight Show had a segment called Jaywalking, in which Leno was filmed collecting examples of ignorance from people on the street. Usually his questions were about geography, U.S. history, or contemporary politics. | |
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Penn & Teller: Bullshit!, They once sent a woman to an environmental festival in order to collect signatures to ban "Dihydrogen monoxide" because of its harmful effects (if you inhale it, you'll die) and its prevalence (your children are exposed to it every day) and she collected a ton of them. For those whose chemistry is rusty, "Dihydrogen monoxide" is water. Another was to give people a petition to effectively end free speech and the right to protest. A few people were shown signing it over the course of the episode... before at the end they showed clips of the vast majority of people who refused in disgust. |
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