Centrist hypocrisy about words makes far-right denialism thinkable

Evidence

But so, too, is what more centrist leaders have been doing for much longer: using words as intended, yet with no intention of acting on them. And one form of denialism feeds the other: the outright denialism in the Mirror World is made thinkable by the baseline war on words and meaning in more liberal parts of our culture. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 502

Categorization

• XREF: This connects directly to Klein’s diagonalism thesis from earlier chapters — the convergence of right-wing denialism and liberal word-degradation, and to the reader’s ongoing tracking of how the Mirror World metabolizes left-abandoned grievances. — connects to: A founder of social constructivism publicly regretted that his ideas aided right-wing climate denial — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 285