Or: everyone used to trust academia as a shared and impartial arbitrator of truth. But Republicans didn’t like having to deal with facts, so they formed their own alternative media – FOX and Rush Limbaugh and everyone in that sphere – where only conservatives would have a say and their fake facts would never get challenged. So for example, there used to be a relatively fair media in which both liberals and conservatives got their say. It’s got a long and complicated argument which I can’t really do justice to here, but the thesis seems to be that the US Right is defecting against the country’s shared institutions in favor of forming its own echo chambers. Vox’s David Roberts writes about Donald Trump and the rise of tribal epistemology.
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