Thread by @jholbo1

I'm writing a thing for purposes of which I need examples of both sides (left & right) accusing the other of 'denying the science', or 'denying the obvious facts', succumbing to groupthink insanity and/or engaging in mass gaslighting. 1/

Now & then I see purported charge sheets. From the left the Big Lie tops it followed by forms of Covid-related or Q-crankery. From the right, lefty denial of biological reality of sex, 2020 was stolen, stupidity of mask-vax mandates, Russia-Russia-Russia, rising crime & riots. 2/

Also, the 1619 Project is waved like a bloody shirt - from the right. It is such an embarrassment to scholarship its existence is proof the left has slipped its epistemic hawser. Related: CRT, 'systemic racism' and Smollett. Rittenhouse case a case in point for both sides. 3/

Trump is a major locus of epistemic polarization: his double-impeachments were obviously merited (to the left) or obviously frivolous and lawless (to the right).

I invite you to to point me to such charge sheets. I see them now and then but can't find them now. Feel free to suggest items, left & right. Being a lefty, I tend to think the right's lists are mostly nonsense, but I still want them. 4/

I am looking for recent stuff but older stuff is also welcome. (Dreyfus affair!) The focus should be claims of the form 'X is patently true/false, AAFCPC [as any fool can plainly see] but the other side absurdly denies it, to its eternal shame.' 5/

There are 'Big Picture' frames asserted to be obviously valid: from the left, the GOP is lurching towards anti-democratic authoritarianism/fascism under Trump. From the right, the 'deep state' has taken over, and anti-liberal prog bigots in the D party. 6/

The Supreme Court is seen very differently from both sides and each view is taken to be obvious to those who hold it: from the left, R's have packed SC with partisans. From the right, R's have a lofty, non-results oriented philosophy of the courts, whereas the left is lawless. 7/

I am making an Excel sheet with headings like: race, sex, elections, courts, what the parties stand for, motives, guns, culture war, economics, crime. (My typology of axes of disagreement is, as yet, uselessly Borgesian and inchoate. Your suggestions will help.) 8/

I repeat the ask: I want examples of claims/views concerning which there is severe partisan polarization as to evident truth status, i.e. each side says the other is engaged in mass gaslighting attacks concerning X, or as afflicted by deep groupthink denialism about X. 9/

And again: I am not a relativist or hereby engaging in omnibothsiderism. /end