Comments by "J Nagarya" (@jnagarya519) on "Facts Don't Win Fights: Here’s How to Cut Through Confirmation Bias | Tali Sharot | Big Think" video.

When you reduce facts to "your truth," you subvert fact by making everything subjective. Then you're in the vast ocean of "everything is opinion".
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@thomascromwell6840 "Everything is subjective." Except that there is an objective reality outside you: try crossing a street through traffic while imagining the traffic doesn't exist; then explain how you "knowledge" that the traffic didn't exist didn't turn out to be true. Yes, the first question of philosophy, the mother of science, is what is, "What is reality?" It is not, "Why does reality not exist?" I don't use the phrase "my truth" -- I leave that to those who are so certain in their "relativity" that they can deny the existence of objective reality. In truth there are both objective reality and subjective interpretation. But those quasi-subjective "interpretations" can actually agree on provable objective realities. We have a Constitution -- we can agree on that. And there is consensus on what the legitimate scope of variable interpretation exists; thus we can determine false interpretations from legitimate. "Woke" is simply stubborn bigotry -- it is a summation of all the baseless right-wing "grievances" that are used as basis for -- at basest -- racism. All the baseless hatreds sum up in the oone stubbron stupidity: attacked INTELLIGENCE, REASON, and THOUGHT in defense of false traditions. You cranks used to call yourselves "dittoheads" -- you repeated the ideological claptrap of such as Rush Limbaugh, and name-called those who refused to refuse to think in lockstep with that stupidity "sheeple". You are the sheeple.
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Fox "news" has lead the extremist right-wing in the push to reduce fact to "opinion". That is the war on truth. That is how to arrive at divide and conquer, at nihilism. "Everyone has the right to believe whatever they want" -- there is no objective reality, no facts.
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