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Flat-earthers, anti-vaxxers and any other anti-common sense stupidity should be publicly shamed. No reason to be nice to the people who purposefully and are willfully ignorant. Uninformed and uneducated are fine, but these people pride themselves on being idiots. They belong in the trash bin of history.
the only people who belong in the trash bin of history are the people who needlessly shame other people for no good reason; these people haven't hurt anyone.
Anti-vaxxers have hurt many people, but maybe you didn't mean them when you said these people".
Flat-earth belief likely has secondary unwanted effects, like how all conspiracy theories eventually funnel into anti-semitism. It's also a huge opportunity cost.
no i didn't mean anti-vaxxers with "these people"
Problem is, there's a lot of overlap between those two beliefs, in their causes and the people affected.
Correlation is not causation
I don't know what point you were trying to make
I am saying flat earth believes attract a lot of conspiracy nuts, and a lot of conspiracy nuts also believe in anti-semitic conspiracy theories.
That doesn’t mean flat earth believes cause them to be anti-semitic.
The point is that flat earth conspiracy theories aren't just "the earth is flat." It's a whole body of conspiracy theories that seek to explain how and why round earthers are suppressing the "truth." And, surprise surprise, it's a conspiracy theory based in hate. It's not a correlation. It literally just is.
I'm pretty sure it's a pretty well known phenomenon that conspiracy theories funnel down into antisemitism
https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/10/why-conspiracy-theorists-always-land-on-the-jews/671730/
Paywall. Got a gift link?
https://archive.is/9kNLR
I just use archive.is for paywall breaking. Magic.