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Originally Posted by Arragonis
Worth a read if people are going to continue using or emphasising contraversial names for others of differing views:
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And what is it but an act of bullying to deny that there is any room for honest disagreement, to insist that those of us who are unpersuaded are the equivalent of Holocaust deniers, that we are not merely mistaken but evil?
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The key word there, though, is "honest". How much of the disagreement on climate science - or evolution, vaccination, nuclear power, etc - is actually honest? That is, how many of the people disagreeing have made the slightest attempt to actually understand the science, instead of (at best) doing a cursory scan to look for a few words they can twist into loopholes for what they believe?
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I'm also very very tired and fed up of the "right = evil anti AGW skeptic denier Republican oil funded new world order conspiracy" and "left = tree hugging hippie watermelon commie" bollocks names used by both sides.
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I get tired of it, too, the more so as it's less than accurate. I'm certainly no leftist, more of a libertarian (in the pre-Koch sense) than anything. Though I might pass as a tree-hugging hippie if I tried, though I was only really interested in one of the "sex, drugs, and rock&roll" triad.