This is an actual headline on Breitbart. Apparently peer-reviewed science is so threatening, you should arm yourself. pic.twitter.com/1nwAYy6iqR
— Kelsey Kennedy (@kelseyrkennedy) December 12, 2016
Deze kop op het fascistische complotblog Breitbart laat niks te raden over: wetenschappers die het wagen om bewijzen te vragen voor de nonsens die dagelijks op Breitbart gepubliceerd wordt, dienen geëxecuteerd te worden. Bek houden en conformeren aan de partijlijn.
De kop is een variant op een uitspraak die ten onrechte aan Hermann Göring toegeschreven wordt. In feite is het afkomstig uit het toneelstuk Schlageter van Hanns Johs, voor het eerst opgevoerd in 1933: ,,Wenn ich Kultur höre… entsichere ich meinen Browning!”. O ja: de voormalige hoofdredacteur van Breitbart, Stephen Bannon, is inmiddels één van de belangrijkste adviseurs van Donald Trump.
Hell of a thing when media organization most closely tied to the incoming president runs a headline suggesting people machine gun scientists
— Kelsey D. Atherton (@AthertonKD) December 13, 2016
With this go the horrors of emotional nationalism and a tendency to disbelieve in the existence of objective truth because all the facts have to fit in with the words and prophecies of some infallible führer. Already history has in a sense ceased to exist, ie. there is no such thing as a history of our own times which could be universally accepted, and the exact sciences are endangered as soon as military necessity ceases to keep people up to the mark. Hitler can say that the Jews started the war, and if he survives that will become official history. He can’t say that two and two are five, because for the purposes of, say, ballistics they have to make four. But if the sort of world that I am afraid of arrives, a world of two or three great superstates which are unable to conquer one another, two and two could become five if the fuhrer wished it. That, so far as I can see, is the direction in which we are actually moving, though, of course, the process is reversible
– George Orwell
