It Started With the Climate
Once a ‘denier,’ always a ‘denier,’
Every form of ‘mass psychosis’ has a forerunner. So it is with what the ‘Twitter Files’ have so aptly revealed, whether hyping a false Russian-collusion conspiracy or silencing critics of a COVID ‘consensus’ who correctly feared the political exploitation of a public health challenge.
But if you want to know where it started, try Googling ‘climate change.’
This was the censors’ first trial run and we should have all seen what was coming next. In fact, an obvious inflection point occurred in 2013 when editors at the Los Angeles Times announced they would no longer print letters from readers who didn’t believe in global warming.1
The rest of the press quickly followed suit. NBC’s wretched little host of Meet the Press, Chuck Todd, banished anyone who disagreed on climatic doom and the AP’s resident expert, Seth Borenstein, continued to spew agitprop while “masquerading as a journalist.”2 The ‘science was settled’ on the climate crisis and anyone who didn’t fall in line was quickly labeled a ‘denier.’
Sound familiar?
It didn’t matter that the ‘science’ had been all over the place ever since the first CO2 molecule was spotted. Indeed, a few decades ago there was near ontological certitude that we were entering a new ‘mini-Ice Age.’