I always thought "reality has a well-known left-wing bias" to be a joke in rather poor taste. It just smacks of self-congratulation. It might be funny when delivered in a self-deprecating way (by a left-winger), but I get queasy thinking of somebody taking it as real.
And yet here we are, with the right wing trying to make it a legitimate statement. They're making their own thought-terminating cliche: everybody who disagrees with me is not merely wrong, but is actively conspiring against me. They've created their own self-enclosed ecosystem, and any time reality contradicts them, they'll find support within that ecosystem. They'll claim that they're critiquing some orthodoxy, without giving anywhere near that kind of critique to their own sources.
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[ 5.1 ms ] story [ 17.4 ms ] threadAnd yet here we are, with the right wing trying to make it a legitimate statement. They're making their own thought-terminating cliche: everybody who disagrees with me is not merely wrong, but is actively conspiring against me. They've created their own self-enclosed ecosystem, and any time reality contradicts them, they'll find support within that ecosystem. They'll claim that they're critiquing some orthodoxy, without giving anywhere near that kind of critique to their own sources.