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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
I’m sure it existed before, but it’s kind of amazing how COVID basically normalized the right wing obsession with attacking academics, experts, and professionals and how they try to frame these things as some sort of insidious trait.
Yet another warning sign of fascism.
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Attacks and distrust of experts and scientists is definitely not new but it has shifted from left to right. Some 30 to 40 years ago it was the academic left and progressives who were attacking science and now it is right wing conservatives.