“Cite your sources please!”

“Show me that study!”

“You need to back your opinion piece up with 10 reputable sources within 10 seconds! Thanks!!”

And, while you are at it go ahead and just transfer your hard earned college degree, skillfully honed street smarts and common sense over to me. I can’t be bothered with looking anything up myself because after all, my disagreeing with you trumps your opinion and even though you might be able to pull multiple credible sources that support your opinion…I still won’t believe them.

THIS is the fresh hell of FAKE NEWS bullshit we are living in now. No one is allowed to opine on anything without the Library of Congress resource librarian on retainer and those who dare to are shouted down with CITATION PLEASE, SHOW YOUR SOURCES, FAKE NEWS at every turn.

News flash…this is a fucking opinion based blog not a scientific journal or legal brief. Also, stop being so goddamn lazy! If your opinion differs from mine then hallelujah! Take the time to consider why you disagree, look up your own fucking information and present it to me politely, if you like, or simply keep on walking, this blog ain’t for you. It’s not that hard and it’s been working just fine like this for eons…until now. Why is that?

Here’s MY OPINION on the matter: If everyone with a differing view can be seen as discredited, deceitful or dishonest then maybe that will set the groundwork for continued marginalization and eventual silencing of dissent. Ya dig? Or not…both stances are acceptable and for those that don’t dig it’s still not my job to convince you otherwise. You have a brain just like me. Use it!

https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/5/15/15585176/motivated-ignorance-politics-debate

I’m not your mama, your teacher, contractually obligated or anything else that requires me to work for you pro bono. Land of the free, home of the brave baby! I both paid for and earned my education through the use of God Money and hard, individual work so quit being an intellectual freeloader you mooch! Get your own learning! To even think that I should act as an eternal tutor for the perpetually oblivious and purposely uninformed is insanity. I’m fine with waiting on you to come back with your own evidence though. The only difference is that I don’t DEMAND it of anyone in order to accept they have a difference of opinion.

Now, now…I can hear the grumbles of, “Oh, you just can’t support your opinion with facts so in order to stop the debate you throw in a cop-out phrase like that?” Okay, cool, so even after debating my position with you for minutes, hours, days, years…decades even all you have to do is puff out your chest and demand stacks of research that you won’t read and won’t believe? Nah, I’ve read this book before and the ending is always the same.

Open thine eyes self-righteous ones! The fear of finding out you really might be wrong is blinding you and it’s keeping you from living. I’m fine with being wrong because being right about how truly sexist, homophobic, racist and utterly morally bankrupt a huge chunk of the population is disturbs me. PROVE ME WRONG!!! I welcome that research and will accept both qualitative and quantitative data on the subject.

Show me what you are really made of…

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