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by starvingbear 2439 days ago
It was a time of a lot of apprehension and war so the kinds of propaganda/marketing of that era were interesting from every country and sometimes business. We are in a different time now but some of the way science and language is subverted are very similar.

The climate language first it started as skeptic, which is inherently anti-science since any scientist should be a skeptic and consensus is nonsense. Climate warming and cooling (if you're old enough to remember that) was re-branded to change. Skeptic is now denier, an extremely negative connotation title. You can see how everything is ramped up until your enemies are on the extreme opposition.

I get your criticism. My intention was to go at the style of propaganda not the scope. If they are going to label me a denier and evoke extreme reactions to an oppositional view, that doesn't mean I should do the same to them.