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You could call it a 'mask off' moment, although VFF have never been keen on masks.

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[–] deadbeef79000 7 points 6 months ago (1 children)

What does an ordinary person do to combat this?

You can't debate in good faith: they're not operating in good faith.

You can't reason them out of a position they've not reasoned themselves into.

I can teach my own children critical thinking, but that's only a couple of people, there's a very large number of people out there who soak this stuff up uncritically.

What can we do?

[–] BalpeenHammer 5 points 6 months ago

The only thing an ordinary person can do is to speak up when they see it. Why is this being reported on a blog instead of the mainstream media? It's because not enough of us spoke out about it and spread the word that it's happening.