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I don't think it's that Academia is/has been taking sides, it's that the right has continued to become more and more insane in the past few decades. The right i

I don't think it's that Academia is/has been taking sides, it's that the right has continued to become more and more insane in the past few decades. The right is now explicitly anti-science and anti-fact. They, quite literally, ARE ideologically opposed to clean air. We've had decades of extremely strong pro-oil propaganda and what have you and it's caused this extremely tumultuous situation where people think there really is two sides to everything. But there just... isn't. There is no logic, no reasoning. It's all about making money and fucking over as many people as possible. That's it. It doesn't matter what Academia does because even acknowledging the sky is blue is a threat to the right. They operate in an alternative universe of lies. No truth is safe, no matter how benign or obvious.

pbh101 1y ago
Both can be true.
- const_cast 1y ago
  Right, but they're not. Because as stated, the reason we're in this situation is because we've let obvious falsehoods masquerade as legitimate opinions when those making the claims don't even believe them. You think the petroleum industry actually believes climate change is a hoax? Of course not. That doesn't stop the right from being ideologically opposed to clean air. The problem here is people such as yourself, and other's, are far too forgiving. You're attributing more good will then you have any right to. These people are lying, they know they're lying, and they're doing it to make a quick buck. If we can't even acknowledge the situation we're in, then we have no hope of fixing it.