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Careful, your politics are showing. You're advocating a sort of leftist, post-national, globalised, post-structuralist agenda. Everyone is allowed a political o

Careful, your politics are showing. You're advocating a sort of leftist, post-national, globalised, post-structuralist agenda. Everyone is allowed a political opinion but it comes across as slightly disingenuous to couch it in factual / self evident terminology. > populist nationalism is causing all kinds of problems That is not a factual statement, it is a subjective political opinion. People on the other side of the fence think the opposite. From whence do you derive this claim to objective truth? Most of your point seems to be built on that statement, but its subjective nature makes it fall apart.

Xophmeister 10y ago
>> populist nationalism is causing all kinds of problems > That is not a factual statement, it is a subjective political opinion. I concede to this point. You are right: this perspective is completely subjective, when I was trying to make the objective point that science/progress doesn't care about nationality, etc. My argument's motivation was to highlight that the popular [British?] press not only dismisses this, but seemingly goes out of their way to push things in the other direction. Whether that's bad or not is very much ones opinion, but it is nonetheless objectively irrelevant modulo the scientific result and arguably "bad" in the sense that it is biased. It begs the question as to what is their (or their master's) end? I didn't put it well. Thank you for pointing it out.