Conspiracy promoters adopt postmodern relativism to license fabricating news.

Evidence

Cernovich may seem like a luddite, but he is actually quite well educated. He has a law degree from Pepperdine and seems to have been paying attention in college. And he makes a familiar point: If there is no truth, and it is all just perspective, how can we ever really know anything? Why not doubt the mainstream news or embrace a conspiracy theory? Indeed, if news is just political expression, why not make it up? Whose facts should be dominant? Whose perspective is the right one? — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 305

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Conspiracy megaphones like InfoWars transform forum rumor into mass broadcast. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 222; Conspiracy bloggers explicitly cite postmodern relativism to justify distrusting mainstream news. — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 304; Postmodern interpretive relativism, once applied to politics, licenses alternative facts — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 293

Broader Connections

• Postmodern interpretive relativism, once applied to politics, licenses alternative facts #corroborates (0.95) — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 293