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I don't think you understand, *misinformation* is whatever they want it to be.
Comment by Sgt_Nicholas_Angel_ at 01/09/2021 at 18:32 UTC
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For some people yes, that’s definitely true. It still sucks to put over a year of hard work into keeping r/lockdownskepticism a civil place without conspiracies and for academic discussions and to have people like OP dismiss us with the loonies. I mean for Christ’s sake, we’ve worked pretty hard to get those AMAs with experts in the field and to keep our sub the type of place academics WANT to do AMAs on. A few experts (not going to mention names) have explicitly said that they were glad to see that we were reasonable and not like the conspiracy folks, and that’s why they chose to do an AMA.
I always assumed people went after NNN more because they were an easier target due to, let’s face it, all the weird crap that’s posted. But LDS isn’t like that. Half the mod team are academics ourselves ffs…
Comment by SacreBleuMe at 01/09/2021 at 19:48 UTC
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I don't think you understand, misinformation is whatever they want it to be.
Mental gymnastics performing the function of allowing you to believe whatever BS is most personally preferable to you.
To us, that looks like an oxymoron. But only because we associate words with their actual definitions.
The alt-right doesn't do that. **To them, "misinformation" means anything that the left doesn't like. Because remember, they believe all of this shit. So when we call their reality misinformation, they just hear that we are calling any opposing viewpoint misinformation regardless of whether or not it's true.**
Sort of like they parody us by calling anything they believe "racism" because they don't understand that a lot of the shit they believe really is racist.
To an alt-right reader, this post translates to "The left wants to ban anything they disagree with, even if it's the truth" which sounds a LOT more in-line with the bullshit they are usually trying to scare each other with.