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That's not fair. You are taking a perfectly innocent -albeit stupid belief and tying it with an entirely unrelated reprehensible one. This is a poor method of s
by FridayoLeary 5y ago
That's not fair. You are taking a perfectly innocent -albeit stupid belief and tying it with an entirely unrelated reprehensible one. This is a poor method of shutting down a conversation because a)it's intellectually dishonest and b)is a sweeping generalisation.
I'm seeing a lot of it and i think it's terrible and has disastrous results. Instead of settling a debate, it ends up alienating and dividing people.
Now, i'm sure you didn't mean to do that and it was just a passing remark with no particular intent. But i feel it's a broader issue which ties in with the subject being discussed.
- mod 5y agoSee a sibling comment--they do, for whatever reason, seem to go hand in hand.
- tstrimple 5y agoMaybe instead of dismissing it as ridiculous, you should do some research into who exactly many of these folks think are perpetuating the lies about the earth being a globe. Far too often, people who are more ignorant of the actual beliefs these conspiracy theorists spout give them the benefit of the doubt and paint them as harmless.
- tshaddox 5y ago> You are taking a perfectly innocent -albeit stupid belief and tying it with an entirely unrelated reprehensible one. There are obviously significant differences in magnitude, but explicitly rejecting reason is never what I would call “perfectly innocent.”
- thombat 5y agoYouTube started recommending me Flat Earth videos a few years ago, and while it's a broad camp there's certainly plenty of religiously-driven antisemiticism there: references to "JewTube" deleting videos to hide the truth (as opposed to the more likely reason:it was 95% material copyrighted by others)