Re:The Twitter Files
by headsoup on Saturday December 03, 2022 @07:32AM
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Maybe the point is people continue to be labelled 'conspiracy theorists' regardless of being actually, factually proven correct. Makes the arguing so much easier when you can just keep dismissing the 'other' rather than say sorry.
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So many words are devalued these days, like facist, racist, Nazi, and extremist.
devalued in the sense that it's easy to trip over some low bar for the new definition and be assigned that label. not devalued all that much in the sense of the negative effect that label has on the labelled person's argument or reputation. which is, of course, very convenient for people who want to throw those words around online.