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And there's only four lights, let's get the accusations of Orwellianism out of the way too. It's not a matter of "my side has facts and your side has opinions.
by fwip 7y ago
And there's only four lights, let's get the accusations of Orwellianism out of the way too.
It's not a matter of "my side has facts and your side has opinions." It's that we disagree on what the facts are. You can find a lot of scientists from a few centuries ago confidently asserting that black people are subhuman. It doesn't magically make them not-racist because they believed it to be a true fact.
They were wrong, and you are wrong.
- remarkEon 7y agoWell, yes, there is a creepy element of Orwellianism to this. And the creepy Orwellianism comes in when you make comparisons like the one you just made - that I’m somehow wrong today because, centuries ago, a few scientists had some pet racial theories that turned out to be wrong. It’s a deliberate inversion of language meant to get people to submit.