You seem to be unintentionally equivocating the existence of what used to be fringe but has now become mainstream. You’re diminishing the very core of the issue by saying “it’s nothing new.”
Crackpots used to be isolated and thought of as fools because they lacked a cohort. Their hare-brained ideas were dismissed as nonsense without repercussions or worries that it might be disenfranchising someone’s right to believe falsehoods. Now, they can find support in bolstered numbers, each falling in line behind their respective mouthpiece of absurdity.
And here we are: the rest of the world standing around mouths agape because we cannot do shit about it.
You seem to be unintentionally equivocating the existence of what used to be fringe but has now become mainstream. You’re diminishing the very core of the issue by saying “it’s nothing new.”
Crackpots used to be isolated and thought of as fools because they lacked a cohort. Their hare-brained ideas were dismissed as nonsense without repercussions or worries that it might be disenfranchising someone’s right to believe falsehoods. Now, they can find support in bolstered numbers, each falling in line behind their respective mouthpiece of absurdity.
And here we are: the rest of the world standing around mouths agape because we cannot do shit about it.