ignoring the object-level content, consider the form of the language used: "has been changed", "okay to use", "safe"
this is very much in line with the general pattern of the far left viewing truth as wholly socially-constructed, allowing them to treat their consensus as fact
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RT @RiverTamYDN
wut
https://twitter.com/RiverTamYDN/status/1399710744866852868
contrast this linguistic mode w/ that of the scientifically-minded: "i believe that", "the evidence indicates"...
where a belief in an objective physical reality generates subjective speech, the belief in no objective reality generates objective speech!
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RT @pee_zombie
this commonality stems from a belief in a knowable moral absolute, motivated by the perceived impossibility of a physical one
if there is no physical truth, social …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1399422517366906881
in that case, is it perhaps their "post-truth" non-materialism which is behind their rhetorical excesses, the desires for comprehensive social control, policing of thought & language? if there is no deeper truth but belief, then through language you can literally control reality
perhaps this explains the extreme politicization of science, the need to control the results which are allowed to be discussed, the questions which can be asked
in their view, science has no more claim on the Truth than they do, its but a power struggle
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RT @pee_zombie
in their worldview, reasoning is merely a tool to be used to advance the correct agenda, that of social justice; as all else, it is subject to bias & power relations…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1399422522920259584
time will show us which epistemic system has greater utility; at the point where you rub against reality, being delusional will quite literally hurt you
in the meantime, what else can we do but build our own evidence-based consensus and stand strong against the times?
this is a fascinating pattern imo, which implies a human psychological need for a sort of "conservation of certainty"; the question is where it lies. if one believe in a deterministic, comprehensible universe, there is no need to artificially strengthen your statements.