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'You're fine. You're vaccinated': Anti-vax Fox News host goes dead silent after co-host calls her out for vaccine status (www.dailydot.com)
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[–] 13 points 3 years ago (15 children)

There was a meteorologist in the US, in Nebraska iirc, that resigned a couple of months ago after receiving death threats for daring to mention climate change during his weather report. They're fucking unhinged.

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  • [–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    In France, on one of the main channels (the public TV, something like 5 or 6 channels, one of which is 24h news), the weather is now called "climate news" and addresses frontally climate stuff, with a link where you can send questions that they answer on air (whether what they answer are real questions or not is left as an exercise to the reader).

    Of course that ruffled some feathers with the lunatic fringe, but they stuck with it, which is nice.

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  • [+] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)
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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    They'd be quicker to believe that tbh. Anything that lets them shirk all accountability for their own actions and justify their bigotry. Your facts << their feelings because skydaddy told them they're special and he's got it all under control.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (7 children)

    Polarized. Two nearly identical people can easily be convinced to hate each other over all sorts of silly nonsense because of what media they choose to consume.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (6 children)

    Nah, if you're so unhinged that you're making death threats simply because someone referenced objective and observable scientific facts that your warped fairy tale reality doesn't let you accept, there's no "once you cut through all your regressive, batshit beliefs, we're really the same". There's no reasoning with them because the delusion (e.g. "owning the libs") is their whole identity.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago* (5 children)

    Thank you for the example of someone dehumanizing other people.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (4 children)

    How's the view from your high horse?

    I've learned that trying to take the high road with people that revel in bigotry and corruption is a fruitless endeavor. I'm done being naive and giving them the benefit of the doubt. Perhaps that's because I live in the real world and actually deal with these people, rather than the pontificating about the intellectual concept of these people.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    You are interesting. Go ahead and doubledown on hatred. Thanks. Have a great day!

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Speaking of interesting, you should read up on the paradox of tolerance. It's very enlightening stuff! Thanks for sharing your perspective!

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