Victoria Stuart 🇨🇦 🏳️‍⚧️Oct 31, 2024

[thread] post-truthism | "alternative facts"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth

Science is more than body of knowledge; it's a way of thinking.
I have a foreboding of an America ...
when people lost ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority ...
unable to distinguish between what feels good & what's true, we slide ...
back into superstition & darkness

-- Carl Sagan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-truth#Contemporary_evaluation

#SocialMedia #DigitalMedia #disinformation #misinformation #PostTruthism #memes

Post-truth - Wikipedia

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Nature editorial: World needs U.S. president who respects evidence
https://mastodon.social/@persagen/113385802115527763

Comment: I am currently reading this, which is highly relevant:

Grant Kien - Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498551342/Communicating-with-Memes-Consequences-in-Post-truth-Civilization

My interpretation: our world bifurcated with the advent of the internet/social media
* post-truthism rampant in latter
* affects real world issues

#SocialMedia #DigitalMedia #disinformation #misinformation #PostTruthism #memes #GrantKien

Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization

Communicating with Memes: Consequences in Post-truth Civilization investigates the consequences of memetic communication, including online harassment, the election of Donald Trump, and the resurge...

Rowman & Littlefield
Oct 31, 2024 at 2:57pmWeb
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How authoritarians use public education to control “truth”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/01/how-authoritarians-use-public-education-to-control-the-truth
https://marylandmatters.org/2025/01/18/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-montgomery-parents-challenge-to-lgbtq-book-rules
https://www.the74million.org/article/supreme-court-agrees-to-hear-montgomery-parents-challenge-to-lgbtq-book-rules

Mahmoud v. Taylor
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahmoud_v._Taylor
* parental censorship, 2SLGBTQIA+ books, public schools
* argument: parents' right to free exercise of religion under 1st Amendment
* Montgomery County, MD

#USpol #USlaw #SCOTUS #GOP #Trump2 #fascism
#censorship #antiLGBT #ParentalRightsMovement #transphobia
#Christofascism #theocracy #transgenocide
#WomensRights #misogyny