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> Alex Jones is an awful person. He lies about so much, some of it will end up being accidentally correct. Agreed. > What he says or thinks should be shunned
by eloff 6y ago
> Alex Jones is an awful person. He lies about so much, some of it will end up being accidentally correct.
Agreed.
> What he says or thinks should be shunned by any decent human being, and he should not be brought up here.
No. He should not be a taboo topic. Let it out in the open where rational people can see for themselves how crazy he is and make up their own minds.
I really hate this whole cancel culture thing, I don't even wish it on the Alex Joneses of the world.
- throwaway5752 6y agoI don't care for cancel culture, too. That doesn't mean we can be selective about who and what we spend our limited time on Earth discussing. Not talking about a pathologically lying conspiracy theorist is good for efficiency and mental health. To each their own.
- 127 6y agoI barely knew Alex Jones existed before he was starting to get censored from all kinds of platforms. What was previously just a blip on the radar, censorship turned into a mainstream talking point.
- eloff 6y agoAgreed, that's the only reason I've heard of him either.
- throwaway5752 6y agoYou're both lucky. He's been around a while, and had explosively grown in prominence before deplatforming. What has been challenging, as an adult growing up into the internet is seeing younger kids exposed to polished and talented psychopaths. These people are very, very good at exploiting social systems and have no qualms about leveraging social norms for their personal benefit. This goes well beyond partisan media. I'm sure this will all sort out someday, but it usually takes years to develop resistance to the sort of manipulation techniques they employee to leverage standard weaknesses that all people have, and the internet has given them massive leverage. People are now exposed to this well before their cognitive development is complete. It is a lot to ask of kids to be able to develop defense mechanisms to military grade propaganda while their prefrontal cortex is still a work in progress. Anyway, Alex Jones is bad, and while I don't care for cancel culture like I said earlier, I will worry about that after the many other more pressing problems facing life on Earth are in a stabler place.