Soft denial by the educated is a bigger obstacle than hard denial

Evidence

Still, I’m troubled by the comfort this analysis implies, the fact that it places the denial all on those who inhabit the Mirror World. It’s similar to the problem of climate change denial: There are the hard deniers, who are easy to spot, saying it’s all a hoax. But the bigger obstacle may always have been the soft deniers, the rest of us who know it’s real but act like it’s not, who keep forgetting, in myriad ways, both large and small. — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 872

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the Mirror/Shadow framework: Klein applies the hard/soft denier distinction from climate to the whole conspiratorial terrain, complicating her own earlier righteous framing.