Trump Orders Flags to Half-Staff for Charlie Kirk

GoldenBoy89 said:

Honestly I don’t really care. Maybe he should have just stayed quiet a little bit longer he’d still have his license.

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ThatRobGuy said:

But therein lies an issue...

One-sided credentialism used to convey some sort of "expertise" on a very new thing, for which, nobody can really be an true expert yet, doesn't carry the same weight as things that are much more established.

Especially not to a degree in which we should be silencing any detractors.

For example:

A doctor expressing a contrarian viewpoint about the efficacy of cloth masks and the arbitrary nature of the social distancing rules with respect to a very new disease/pathogen, should not be categorized the same way as if a doctor was out there saying "the medical establishment is lying, smoking cigs is actually good for you!"


It also produces two sets of rules...

Where, if a doctor is perceived to be aligned with "the correct political side", they get all the grace in the world to be wrong and flip-flop on their positions numerous times (even on the same subject), based on "well, this is all very new...the science changed". Yet, doctors perceived to be on the "wrong political side" get the misinformation label and get their license threatened.

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RocksInMyHead said:

- the COVID-19 pandemic was planned
- spike proteins cause cell death
- claiming huge numbers of deaths from the COVID vaccine
- conspiracy theories about how the medical establishment was suppressing information on ivermectin and hydroxychloroquine treatment
- there's no evidence of asymptomatic COVID-19 spread
- people who have had COVID-19 cannot be reinfected

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ThatRobGuy said:

As opposed to
- the lab leak theory is racist
- "if you get vaccinated, you won't catch covid"
- "cloth masks work because it spreads primary via droplets
- "natural immunity isn't reliable

Why was there no permanent professional consequences for those bits of misinformation?

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ThatRobGuy said:

As opposed to
- the lab leak theory is racist
- "if you get vaccinated, you won't catch covid"
- "cloth masks work because it spreads primary via droplets
- "natural immunity isn't reliable

Why was there no permanent professional consequences for those bits of misinformation?

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ThatRobGuy said:

He musted have been respected enough back 2012 to be invited give a Ted Talk

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GoldenBoy89 said:

What does any of this have to do with flags at half mast for Charlie Kirk?

This thread has obviously run its course.

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ThatRobGuy said:

It's because someone else had replied in the thread about people having negative professional consequences (and doxxing) for not going along with what the sitting administration/in-power party wanted as far as public discourse surrounding a contentious issue... so I provided examples of professionals who faced consequences for that reason, a few of the examples were professors who refused to cancel finals for a "Floyd remembrance day" and a few of the examples I provided were covid contrarians, that's how this particular off-shoot the conversation came up.

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