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they are displaying all the basic signs of cult membership: rigid binary thinking (pun maybe intended), refusal to address or even acknowledge alternate facts or reality, refusal to grant that anyone may have a good-faith disagreement, but instead hatred and rage toward all non-believers, and this weird form of apocalyptic hysteria, where either their beliefs and program are accepted unconditionally or else genocide or some other disaster is inevitable.

colin is a brave and smart man, but (as im sure he knows) people cannot be reasoned out of things they weren't reasoned into in the first place, and trying to have a constructive conversation w a cult member is as futile as trying to have one w an infant.

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Reminds me of the enviromental fanaticism on global warming.

John McWhorter has a similar take on the anti-racism crowd.

True believers all.

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Thank you for making my point.

Most fanatics are poster children for the Dunning-Kruger effect.

IIRC your punishmnet for climate apostasy was that used by ISIS.

Not very enlightened!

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I totally agree! I am trying to focus on the people who don't yet know they are in a cult, and even those are difficult to work with.

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hey good luck, i guess change happens one brain at a time ;)

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