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Flat earthers are a lot less interesting or hard to understand than people realize. Belief in a flat earth is a dog-whistle for fundamentalist Christians. So
by p3llin0r3 8y ago
Flat earthers are a lot less interesting or hard to understand than people realize.
Belief in a flat earth is a dog-whistle for fundamentalist Christians.
So yeah, they don't care about the fact that we can observe the Earth is round or any other proof, their ignorance is proof of their faith.
- quadrangle 8y agoThat's far too simplistic. Naive people with no bias to start with can and do go down bizarre YouTube rabbit-holes and end up becoming flat-earthers or something else crazy. In fact, most of today's flat-earthers seem to be primarily driven by the arguments from flat-earth claims and nothing more: https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/may/27/is-the-earth-pancake-flat-among-the-flat-earthers-conspiracy-theories-fake-news https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/may/27/is-the-earth-...