Tag: conspiracism
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Conspiracism, Denialism & The “Danger of Incomplete Critique”
Conspiracy theorists erase the human aspect of history. My child — who lived, who was a real person — is basically going to be erased. Lenny Pozner, father of one of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting victims. As interesting as exploring the crazy and sometimes quirky world of the things and batshit alternative histories…
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Documentation: European RedBrown Confusionism
Initial date (it’s an ongoing list/resource): 03.01.2023. By definition RedBrown politics, or confusionism (a similar term I know from/used in France), is an amorphous and creeping tendency rather than a clearly delimitated political current. There are therefore multiple things that can be said to constitute it, although I don’t think we need to care too…
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Chomsky’s Long Career of Bullshit: A Guide/Resource
Originally written: 09.01.2022. **note: I wrote this before the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the [at time of writing this note – september 2022 – ongoing] war. Chomsky – very unsurprisingly, if you look at what is documented on this page – has peddled some crappy pseudo-anti-imperialist talking points about the whole situation. I haven’t…