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even if [the] 'factual basis' they might hold in disrepute. While I agree that sheltering its readers from their ideological enemies is not a good thing, I do
by vanusa 5y ago
even if [the] 'factual basis' they might hold in disrepute.
While I agree that sheltering its readers from their ideological enemies is not a good thing, I do think there should be a minimal standard of non-drivel-tude.
For example, I don't see any benefit to its readers in passing along opinion pieces from the Flat Earth Society. Or proclamations from nutjob senators claiming that it was the police "bore the brunt of the violence" during the uprising that followed the George Floyd lynching.
- gengelbro 5y agoIf one believes as you do that they are "nutjob senators", it should be all the more important that you're appraised as to their thinking and thought process no? Why would you choose selective ignorance to those which wield power?
- vanusa 5y agoThe opposite of "selective ignorance" is not publishing their verbal flatulence in full and as-is.