keccers
@keccers.eth
I dislike these creators just as much as I dislike the creators they debunk. There needs to be a middle ground; a synthesis I also don’t know how to get around the fact that moderation is fundamentally unpopular as the article notes https://www.npr.org/2025/02/20/nx-s1-5277087/wellness-influencers-science-creators-maha-rfk-jr
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Naomi
@naomiii
Did you ever read Naomi Klein's Doppelganger? She also takes on this wellness culture, which meets the far-right in certain moments. "This willingness to write off huge swaths of humanity that are cast as lesser within supremacist narratives is the strongest glue that binds together the pastel-hued, self-loving world of women's wellness (where it is your moralistic failure not to train to be your best) with the fire-breathing, immigrant-bashing world of the Bannon right." -- That said, her book is more about trying to find out how someone formerly a feminist could become a far-right spokesperson - so this is just a chapter in it, which unfortunately doesn't have a solid solution to fix this specific mess. I just thought it was an interesting connection, and somewhere, there is a suggestion of more community-run outlets for information. Also I think the way science works doesn't necessarily help making people feel assured since... things change sometimes, as we find out more.
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keccers
@keccers.eth
There seems to be such a difficulty with change. Like, sometimes when things change people don’t have a lot of understanding for that. They are more apt to say “you lied, then?”
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