Because if a POLITICIAN can just choose to handwave decades of astute scientific research because Belief, then why can't an antivaxer?
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If politicians don't have to care about or be held accountable by academic or legal data, then why shouldn't confirmation bias rule all?
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It makes me spitting mad to know that these assholes don't even care that they're breaking public faith in science, academia, government.
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LBR, most of them won't live long enough to suffer the full ungodly consequences of a large-scale, multi-country cultural regression.
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Isolationism, xenophobia, oligarchic autocracy, patriarchal heterosexism; we've done it before & badly. But we're scrapping history courses.
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Listen, I'll freely admit that the arts can be flaky & self-indulgent as hell at times, but there's a REASON the right hates humanities.
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Humanities teach critical thinking, political analysis, historical precedents, cultural & media literacy; the idea that norms are changeable
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When the humanities comes under siege - when politicians actively DEVALUE those skills - it means they're playing a long-con on your heirs.
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They want to raise a credulous, fearful, uneducated next generation so that THEIR personal business & political dynasties are secured.
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Once they've steered your fear, sleight of hand - divorcing words from actions - lets them prey on you while blaming strangers for it.
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I am so tired, you guys. But I'm mad as hell and I'm STAYING mad until we start to see these fuckers held accountable for their actions.
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