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If it takes some misinformation to end the horrific act of infant genital mutilation, I'm kinda fine with it tbh.
No. We could just end it and also not be stupid while spreading misinformation.
Much as I feel genital mutilation is awful and should be a thing of the past this will unfortunately harm people on the way. The religious who believe circumsision is a good idea will keep doing so, but along the way women who are pregnant will have their only reasonable option for pain and fever relief stigmatised, ironically potentially increasing the rate of autism. There is some evidence that maternal fever may increase the likelihood of autism in the child, so not using paracetamol to control fever may increase the rate.
Also, never side with Nazis. If they say the sky is blue you don't say you agree, you say that the sky is blue. They will always try to pull people in to agreeing with them and then change their opinion later and try to pull people along with them.
That's how they get you.
They build your trust with some truth (or at least something believable. Usually half-truths and lies-through-omission nowadays). Add in some fear. Then what you accept as truth changes.
This is why it's so damn dangerous that Sinclair and Nexstar owns almost every goddamn local news broadcast in the country. They didn't just buy the stations...they bought the trust that those stations had earned in the local market. That was the real asset.
Yep, and by broadcasting the same message from many sources they can create the illusion of consensus because of the ten news sources you see 8 of them agree, 1 goes insanely far past those 8, and 1 disagrees with the other 9. The fact that only one station disagrees with the rest and presents reasonable facts makes them sound like the outlier and seem likely wrong, while the insane version makes the 8 in the middle sound normal.
Basically the plot of Book of Mormon