| JustcallmeRiff said: Shaming and ridicule is the only way to combat "alternative facts". When the president can deny photographic evidence of his inauguration and he can deny scientific evidence of global warming. This emboldens many people. You cannot regulate or moderate them, you must ridicule them, shame him back into the Shadows. |
I agreed that there needs to be a serious effort to combat "alternative facts" as this stuff goes above just being difference of opinion and can literally cause damaging misinformation to many things. I only worried that doing it by "shaming someone into submission" can often have the reverse effect and make someone just double down on what they think out of spite or hatred as a result of it and possibly never open up to reasoning, instead using it to say "look at how all these bad people attacked me for yada yada yada" and group them all up like that which can also fuel others who believe them.
Edit: I've edited this comment to rewrite it as to more accurately portray what I meant to say at the time, as the original was poorly worded.
Last edited by FloatingWaffles - on 16 August 2021
