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Comment by pstuart

1 day ago

Edit: just waking up.

> suggesting that the person with this lawn sign is superior in every way to people who disagree with her

Da fuq? No, it's a statement of beliefs (which I share). None of it is meant to belittle those that disagree, it's simply stating a belief system.

As opposed to calling Democrats DemonRats and implying that they're all evil and are destroying America?

"No human is illegal" are four well-chosen words that would be a meaningless truism except in opposition to the construct of "illegal alien."

If you thought "Science is Real" you might read something like

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/03/how-migration-...

and understand that the discourse of politically oriented folks about immigration is not at all evidence based. Tacking one cause to another cause tends to work terribly for progressive causes

The best critique of "Science is Real" is the Habermas classic

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legitimation_Crisis_(book)

which points out a failure mode of our civilization in terms of reconciling expert knowledge, popular participation, and reality which remains unanswered.