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To: slacker711 who wrote (128163)	1/7/2010 12:00:32 AM
From: Paul Kern	Respond to of 542141

I put the nonsense that Suma posted in exactly the same camp as I put the birthers. The birthers invented a lie -- a simple, outright lie.

To: slacker711 who wrote (128163)	1/7/2010 2:07:53 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 542141

'While the conspiracy theories arent "hate speach"'- no they aren't. And this "they certainly work to inspire hate, " I disagree with. The JFK conspiracy theorists inspire hate? The area 51 folks inspire hate? What I think you mean is that some hateful people also buy in to some conspiracies- but it's not just hateful people. A great deal of the time it's just stupidity, and stupid people love this stuff- probably ignorant people too. There are stupid people who aren't particularly hateful who really believe in conspiracies. It's like natives believing in a volcano God, or folks believing in Jesus- for big events that people don't quite understand, it's nice to have a weird "otherworldly" explanation- if you can't deal with "shit happens" or you can't stand a void in your knowledge and you have to fill it with some sort of mumbo jumbo, some confabulation must be appealing- I'm not sure why, but it obviously is. I see that sort of problem on the left and right- and I don't recall seeing it spoken of here as a particular problem of the right, but then I don't read every post. But if "so many" here thought it was just a problem of the right, count me among the few who think conspiracy nuttiness extends to most of the world's religions, and contaminates every political party, and country in the world. Consistent logic is not the strong suit of the human race.