You should be able, if you want, to justify anti-vax sentiment, or even vaccine resistance, by seeing it as a consequence of failed Brexit predictions and Jussie Smollett faking a crime, but we should be able to think you’re a nutcase
You’re struggling to understand why some people are vaccine hesitant. The “let me help you” megathread:
Remember back when experts said the Titanic was unsinkable? And now we’re supposed to trust them that allowing Pfizer to inject us with a Wuhan compound will save us?
A lot people seem to believe in a kind of populist alchemy whereby institutional missteps transmute expertise from being the most epistemically successful source of guidance to being on a par with, or even lower than, dorm room YouTube chudstreaming.
But Jussie Smollett perpetrating a hoax doesn’t justify wholesale psychological dismissal of epidemiological research, I’m very sorry to tell you.
I often get this question. My answer is simple: I don’t think combating is necessarily amplifying. I try to analyze the world correctly for my followers and sometimes that involves responding to arguments in a way that inadvertently increases their reach.
So Substack buys Letter, which is an interesting acquisition for all sorts of reasons, but the article doesn't concern itself with any of them. Instead, it focuses only on problematizing free speech as some sort of pretext for committing discourse harms.
The author is very concerned about "social justice" being maligned as an enemy of free speech, but this article, which is transparently motivated by social justice considerations, is characterizing "free speech" as an instrument of harm!
Oh heavens no! Substack's acquisition of Letter "won't help them rebuild the trust" they lost when like five or six malcontent dipshits sensationally left the platform and absolutely no one cared five minutes later. However will they cope with this?!?
You follow the teachings of an incel chieftain named MOLDBUG and you conspiratorially refer to benign bureaucracies as THE CATHEDRAL. No one should lend your theological forays any weight at all.
Oh my Lord did we just score in extra time—after a two hour stalemate—to beat our eternal rivals? #USAvMEX
Acosta with an absolute masterclass. Hoppe has solidified himself as the second best on the ball talent behind Pulisic. Miles Robinson—what a performance.
Beating Mexico twice this year, in two finals, for two trophies—it’s just so wonderful. 🤩🤩🤩
I think this piece is entirely incorrect, but it's worse than just wrong—it operates from that impossibly obnoxious posture of wistful pity over the Sad and Tragic Fate of David French when it's the author who is unwittingly documenting her own descent.
It takes a remarkable blinkeredness to include a defense of Trump's Charlottesville apologia in a post about MY WAYWARD BROTHER DAVID FRENCH
It's absurd on its face to treat Drag Queen Story Hour as the threshold of licentious depravity.
"If French is willing to uphold the constitutional norm that allows drag queens to read stories in public libraries THERE IS NO END TO THE MORAL HORRORS HE WILL ENDORSE!!!!"