Saturday, April 18, 2020

Too sealed into their own bubble of foolishness to laugh at

Long the home for aged right wing cranks who are often so unpleasant they boast about how their comments to even Murdoch media (or calls to talk back radio) are banned, I mostly post about Catallaxy with at least some degree of amusement at their obliviousness to reality and wild exaggeration.

But you know, their commentary on COVID-19 has put me off visiting the site for more than the briefest look.   The intensity of the Dunning Kruger effect on this issue there is just so high that it doesn't seem the slightest bit funny.  Perhaps I find it more disturbing than usual because, with an obvious problem that is unfolding over a short time frame (much faster than the time scale of climate change), it becomes just plain offensive that they do not let their bubble of insouciance be interrupted by something even as plain as dead bodies accumulating in foreign countries, foreign leaders skirting close to death, or the extremely worrying death rate amongst doctors and nurses trying to tend to the ill.

There comes a point where stupidity stops being funny and becomes offensive.  That site has reached it.
  
[To clarify:  as would be plain, I have felt disgusted with the site many times before, with its misogyny and racism that has often been let slide through, not to mention its active campaign against political action on climate change.  But on this issue, it feels more directly offensive because of the immediacy of the life or death choices involved.]

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