re: The mass freakout over Bret Stephen's climate change article on NYT

Eh, frick em if they can't handle diversity of opinion. Especially when it is merely just within a range of agreed upon positions you said are acceptable.

And you lose the privilege of claiming "liberalism" when you can't handle discussion of unpleasant opinions and deal with disagreement by trying to shame away instead of dismantling through empirical deconstruction. Its the opposite of science or liberalism.


...For context, this is the same paper that employed or gave a platform for Bill Kristol for over a decade.

This is something they do on the Op-ed side of the paper.

If you subscribed thinking you were getting a Daily Kos newsletter, then you should unsubscribe and go back to the safety of your carefully culled Facebook feed that doesn't pop up any triggering articles that may offend your beliefs.

I say this as someone that thinks climate change denial, and the groups and people that foster it or the complacency currently going on, is going to go down in history as one of the biggest dark spots in modern civilization. But you don't fix the problem through entrenchment, refusal to engage, anti-intellectual approaches, and slacktevism.