gnosis

If it’s obviously false, that obviousness will become clear to those attempting to find out, as we explore it. One might justify this by saying that some people don’t want to actually find out what’s true, they just want someone to blame… but if so this issue cannot be solved in general by injunctions against saying obvious things or asking obvious questions. If saying the obvious is outlawed, only outlaws will have access to some truths, and then the law will have egg on its face! Likewise with people positing things where the official position is that “there is no evidence”. Any claim that there is “no evidence” of something is evidence of bullshit. There is no No Evidence.

People grappling with the tension of how to support free speech while not supporting calls to violence might find it helpful to distinguish observations about ones’ own experience from calls for collective agreement about generalizations.