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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
The thing is about critical thinking is that there’s always some underlying ideology under it. Education today is suffused with skepticism and postmodern thinking—in the *philosophical sense,* not academic sense. Even if they don’t know it, schools are trying to teach children fundamental values instead of teaching them how to relate information to their own values. It isn’t entirely their fault—parents as a whole on both sides of the aisle are failing to instill values on their kids. 

As for the ideology—Facts are posed as *inherently good* and things that are unsure are *inherently bad.* That’s why they’ve tried to put names to phenomena like “systemic racism” and muddied the definitions surrounding gender. That’s why “organized religion” is a threat to contemporary ideologies.
gpt
Sorry but critical thinking is just based on skepticism. The first step to thinking critically about anything is to not take it as a given. While you can consider whether people should think critically an ideological stance, the fact that critical thinking requires some skepticism is not itself ideological.

Postmodernism is actually separate and not at all required to teach critical thinking. It certainly has an assumption that you should be thinking critically, but it is not required for the development of the skill itself.