Reading over the wknd that in one of the most highly educated nations on earth, Austria, only 65% of the people are fully vaccinated. Seems far right politics is effective at disseminating the same disinformation that contaminates too many Canadians.
If the far right can stop millions from saving their own lives w vaccines, what can't they stop? And if the majorities in our many educated societies don't take disinformation campaigns seriously, what has to happen to make them understand how much this threatens democracy?
We shouldn't need an international summit to teach us that the fastest way to destroy democracy is to continue to believe that we need to respect all who express an opinion. Why offer respect to those who have wittingly or unwittingly been recruited by the disinformation army?
This threat is given maximum oxygen because the delivery device for the attack is the ordinary human being. Many of us fall for the idea that if it's just ordinary people expressing themselves, we need to respect that. Nonsense.
Ordinary people aren't expressing their own opinions. They're robotically repeating deliberate disinformation targeting our public safety, our economy and our capacity for governing in the interests of the common good.
Some may think this message, harsh. Yrs from now it will seem quite moderate. All opinions are NOT equal. Those untethered to facts are unworthy of respectable discussion. Arming the carriers of disinformation, disarms the rest of us who have to deal with the ugly consequences.
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