When wokeness went mainstream, people started doing affirmative action for academic papers and news articles. Normally these things are expected to be written to a certain standard - things like logic, factual accuracy, lack of bias. But when they follow an agenda the standard is greatly relaxed, so you get things like you're describing. In communist countries they used to have the same thing. Blatantly illogical or untrue things published in scientific textbooks as fact, simply because the promoter of the idea was a political supporter of the regime.
It's fucking savage. Watching people abandon critical thinking is so bewildering. I have "conversations" where I just watch their eyes glaze over as they access the memories of the last NPR story they heard. Where are Dragons when you need them? Or aliens? Or gamma ray bursts?
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