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by nerdponx 1914 days ago
There is plenty of antiscience on the left (chemtrails, 5g, anti-vax).

But critical race theory is a deliberately extreme academic model of the world, and it actually turns out to be a useful model. To complain that it is not a falsifiable model misses the point of what literary "theory" is for.

Your post smells like a bad faith dogwhistle, rather than an attempt to discuss something.

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It wasn't my intention to discuss any of those beliefs, just to list examples of anti-science beliefs among leftists.

If you believe critical race theory is science, OK - it's not the subject of this thread, I suppose.

The only relevant aspect is that we will see articles of how anti-science conservatives supposedly are, because they reject critical race theory. It's actually useful for that - identifying bullshit articles and organisations.

Fair enough. Just don't conflate "belief in things I don't believe" with "anti-science".