[CamperBob2]

Good point, no one ever criticizes that.

But it's a good point to bring up when someone plays the moral relativism card. Imagine if our government sent armed thugs after anyone who posts or even mentions the famous photo of the students at Kent State. Not even Nixon would have tried that, but it's business as usual in China.

[khuey]

Er, the reason we rarely talk about Kent State anymore is because nobody defends that. What's the point in "criticizing" something when everyone agrees with the critics?

Nobody criticizes the geocentric model of the solar system these days either.

[ncmncm]

Spherical Earth, on the other hand...

I have not found an explanation for that epiphenomenon, although I have concluded that it is not meant ironically.

[wavefunction]

Some of that is a put on, trolling people over something obviously silly. And some is real.

[CamperBob2]

I think the whole Flat Earth thing is like the "Kubrick filmed the Apollo 11 landing on a soundstage" idea... it started out as a joke, and then got out of hand.

That seems to be happening a lot lately.

[maimeowmeow]

Don't understand how people come to the conclusion that the earth is circular.