Please, for the love of any god you like, just...do not reply to people disputing an incorrect opinion you have stated with any variation of “I’m allowed to have an opinion”. The same applies to people telling you the facts you produced to support a genuine opinion are wrong.
Dispute how they have interpreted the facts you presented: sure! Produce citations showing where your facts came from: absolutely! Run off to sea and go a-viking: if you must, please use #PPE and #sociallydistance while raiding. Maybe use bows? But facts are facts, not opinions.
You are absolutely allowed to hold any *actual* opinions you wish. They may make you a terrible person, but that doesn’t change your right to hold them. Facts are not opinions. You are not allowed to “believe” #trans ppl don’t exist or that the #COVID19 vaccine is totally
ineffective just because you want those things to be the case and then defend them with “I’m allowed to have an opinion”. Objective facts are not opinions.
You can absolutely dispute how facts are *presented*, how certain things are categorised etc. That’s the absolute basis of how critical thinking operates. But all of these things must relate to observable reality in some way. That is an absolutely different thing.
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