When in reality, we don't accept that idea as good because it was extremist lunacy but because it had merits we can demonstrate.
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Well you better start coming up with a better counter-argument than "lol u crazey"
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I just linked you one. I can link many more? https://conatusnews.com/care-much-hypocrisy-now/ …https://areomagazine.com/2017/02/15/the-problem-with-intersectional-feminism/ …
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"you see rightwing minorities prove that intersectionality is bullshit, checkmate socialists"pic.twitter.com/a9yvdkWbYm
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There's an essay attached to that...
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In the climate debate, where this sort of thinking is endemic among deniers, this is called the Bozo the clown fallacy:pic.twitter.com/oBfnnl0ai7
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"Remember that time people said some other unrelated thing was wrong, but it wasn't? That's why I'm right."
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It's the they-laughed-at-Galileo argument
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Sadly inaccurate user name.
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ahh ye old "they called (famous scientist) crazy too when he/she proposed (reason for scientists fame)".
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2/ "They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
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My favourite is "people thought homosexuality was a mental disorder so pedophilia is just a sexual orientation too"

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It's the: 'They laughed at Galileo' gambit
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I still call it lunacy. By people with zero understanding of biology and an overload of gender activist politically correct ignorance.
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1/ Medical skeptic David Gorski (
@gorskon /@oracknows) calls this the "Gallileo Gambit". Or, as Carl Sagan put it,Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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