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Best part about your comment: the reader has no way to know if you’re talking about “conspiracies”, or “conspiracy theories”, due to colloquial (ignorant) in
by DANmode 1y ago
Best part about your comment:
the reader has no way to know if you’re talking about “conspiracies”,
or “conspiracy theories”,
due to colloquial (ignorant) interchangeable use.
- mikkupikku 1y agoThe colloquial muddying of language concerning "conspiracy theory" was probably a government psyop in response to the JFK assassination. There, the officially endorsed theory was a lone wolf theory, that one guy did it by himself without any help or encouragement, and virtually all other theories were theories that involved one or more people conspiring in some way. From there, "conspiracy theory" morphed in media to mean any theory running counter to the official theory, even when the official theory was itself a theory about a conspiracy.