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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by imtringued on Monday December 26, 2022 @08:39AM (#34137523)
>the popular resistance to your unpopular ideas may simply be proof that they do not have merit?

No matter how many people believe the earth is flat or the sun circles around the earth, it won't make it true. We have day and night cycles because earth is a sphere that is rotating so that only one side of earth is exposed at the same time.

No matter how unpopular this opinion is and no matter how big the mob's desire to lynch me is, it is still closer to the truth than the potentially popular opinion of earth being flat and the sun circling around the planet.

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Re:MIT Faculty Votes for Statement on Freedom of Expression ... by yawpitch on Monday December 26, 2022 @06:19PM (#34143030)
In all the thousands of years of recorded human history there has never been a time where you could find enough people who actually believe the Earth is flat to fill a room sufficiently large to constitute “popular” opinion.

That is, not until after the advent of the Internet and YouTube… both of which, ironically, depend on the Earth being non-flat to function.

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