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You're not helping.
by ferongr 9y ago
You're not helping.
- CamperBob2 9y agoYou don't know many of the so-called deniers, do you?
- ferongr 9y agoIt doesn't matter. Belittling people never turns them your side.
- CamperBob2 9y agoI'll reiterate: you don't know these people. I do. They will claim it's the wrath of God, that $(PERCEIVED_SOCIAL_ILL) is to blame, and that the evangelical version of Protestant Christianity is the only remedy. They will not see it as "belittling" to point this out. They'll tell you this themselves. These people are in charge of the Presidency, both houses of Congress, and both legislative chambers in 32 states, including 17 with veto-proof majorities. They hold 33 governorships. They will probably control the Supreme Court soon, regardless of what happens with the Trump/Pence administration in the near term. Dismiss this at your peril.
- stupidhn 9y ago"These people".
- CamperBob2 9y ago.... aren't interested in virtue-signalling exercises on Hacker News.
- oldandtired 9y agoThere are many who claim the title of Christian and are no more Christian than any true-blue Atheist, Buddhist, Moslem, etc. The other "problem" is the commonly promulgated belief that if one does not subscribe to the view of anthropogenic climate change then one has to be a climate change denier. This belief has just as much stupidity and bigotry as saying that the earth is flat. Your "peril" is not being able to look at things with a much more nuanced view and actually recognise the big and little differences between people.
- kwk1 9y agoWow, you know all those people? And the whole of them, down to the individual, are irredeemable (global warming deniers)?
- throwaway938402 9y agoIt's utterly hopeless trying to communicate with climate change deniers. It has the opposite of the intended effect -- if you're the opposition and you're unhappy, they must be doing something right.
- flukus 9y agoSome are honestly misinformed and can respond to new information, some will never change their mind and others are paid to be denialists. It's worth responding to the first group, the response will indicate if they're really the second or third groups.
- agumonkey 9y agoHow to help ? mass only responds to politics but they get to elect their own idiot ... sad loop.