Of late we've been seeing a lot of bigots, kooks and reactionaries trying to adopt the language of victimization.
Gay rights advocates in the US are not being gracious in their victory over decent people who just wanted to go on treating a whole subset of humanity as second class citizens. Now various laws designed in the last few years to attack, dehumanize and marginalize gay Americans topple like dominos and they have the sads and gay rights supporters are being MEAN to them.
A conservative spokes clone accuses Bill Nye of being part of a vast conspiracy to bully people who believe that scientists must just be fibbing with this silly 99% of scientists believe global warming is real and human caused stuff.
You big meanie!
Scorn is a useful social construct. It exists for a reason. In the marketplace of ideas scorn is the health department closure poster on a cafe door.
Some ideas and the people who promote them SHOULD be scorned. Some positions should be career limiting and socially devastating.
If you believe this nonsense you are wrong and you should feel bad.
That's how society evolves, less from the new ideas we adopt than from the ones we outgrow.
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