Most of this was ok except the motte and bailey gaslight with the WEF.
It’s perfectly reasonable to dismiss those wackadoodles that think the WEF will create “15 minute lockdown zones”, those people are stupid.
But the way this article phrased the WEF situation muddies the conversation and equates all people skeptical of WEF as some sort of tinfoil hat MAGA nut.
https://youtu.be/hfqD5aW0X5U?si=YS6EyHeU_gzTnf_W
Here is a video of a recent WEF conference where they discuss how bosses can use brain scan technology to improve worker productivity.
WEF is akin to Elon Musk style corporate, for-the-rich-and-screw-the-workers style fuckery.
Legitimate skepticism of the WEF shouldn’t be conflated with that of MAGA nuts and its not productive for journalists to skim past this concern without addressing it. All that does it create further resentment and distrust towards the media and cause people to view journalists as part of the establishment.
Not acknowledging the difference between these two groups will cause the reasonable people to be carried into the alt right pipeline.
This is important.
We also saw this happen with people who were opposed to lockdowns during the pandemic. Anyone who opposed lockdowns were immediately shunned as free-dumb convoyer types, not realizing that many people who opposed lockdowns did so because they were used instead of more effective methods to control the spread of the virus.
Legitimate skepticism of the WEF shouldn’t be conflated with that of MAGA nuts and its not productive for journalists to skim past this concern without addressing it.
That doesn’t have anything to do with conspiracy theories, though.
I got super upset reading a New Yorker article about flat-earthers in 2018. My then-partner said I should let it go, “let them believe what they want to believe,” and “it doesn’t affect you.” My answer? “These people vote.”
I’m so sick of this shit.
