There is freedom of speech in most of the western world.

However, the majority of us know very well the difference of free speech and threats, hate speech, encoraging self harm, etc.

I'll always deffend free speech: we can debate if transitioning genders is a health hazard, or if there needs to be a birth control campaign – even if it triggers religious folks or transexual people.

We can not, however, cyberbully someone, or shame strangers on the street based on their sexuality.

Its pretty obvious to most countries of the West, besides the US.

And I think the difference lies there, in many ways:
- People pretending to be doctors and telling others to drink bleach or take some antiparasitic drug instead of vaccines;;

- Religious groups forcing Creationism to be taught in schools;

- "Race Theory" debates that are actually endoctrination for racism...

The list goes on.

No here cares about anything, this place is just full of liars who only care about their own trolling and trying to harm the mental health of other users. I guess it's a form of sadism or psychopathy.

Lack of education. The billionaires keep cutting funding to the department of education and college is expensive.

Originally posted by Arvaos:

The question is: Why is denialism so prevalent in America more than anywhere else? Is it because they have freedom of speech there?

Because it is not denialism. "Denialism" is a buzzword that you have been programmed to use as a mental tactic to negate the feeling of cognitive dissonance when an idea you have been told that you must agree with or else is challenged. And the reason why it is more common in America is because america does not have as much of an indoctrination culture as, say, Europe. It's not even free speech inherently (though of course freer speech will cause ideas to be challenged more), just that America does not have the same "Big Brother loves me, this I know, because Big Brother told me so!" mentality that Europe has.

Originally posted by St✩rlight:

No here cares about anything, this place is just full of liars who only care about their own trolling and trying to harm the mental health of other users. I guess it's a form of sadism or psychopathy.

That's Off Topic summed up, yes.

You don't want to open that door.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhWo1AOrSrY

Libs don't believe it anymore regardless, Greta's onto the new thing, Gaza.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dj_ebfn3_VY
https://youtu.be/XA3OblqlTJc

Originally posted by Gracey Face:

Originally posted by Arvaos:

The question is: Why is denialism so prevalent in America more than anywhere else? Is it because they have freedom of speech there?

Because it is not denialism. "Denialism" is a buzzword that you have been programmed to use as a mental tactic to negate the feeling of cognitive dissonance when an idea you have been told that you must agree with or else is challenged. And the reason why it is more common in America is because america does not have as much of an indoctrination culture as, say, Europe. It's not even free speech inherently (though of course freer speech will cause ideas to be challenged more), just that America does not have the same "Big Brother loves me, this I know, because Big Brother told me so!" mentality that Europe has.

You deny that Biden won and MAGA attacked the capitol building on January 6th 2021.

Originally posted by St✩rlight:

No here cares about anything, this place is just full of liars

which is why people here dont care. Nonstop political rage bait and nonsense will do that. Op only has themself to blame

Originally posted by Cyberpunk Alien:

Lack of education. The billionaires keep cutting funding to the department of education and college is expensive.

In his book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963), Richard Hofstadter described the repeated suspicion and distrust of intellectuals, experts, and abstractions in American life.

Hofstadter described how popular culture, particularly television and lurid reporting, might make anti-intellectualism stronger by providing publicity to entertainment, emotion, and superficiality instead of critical analysis.

He cautioned that politicians are going to take advantage of anti-intellectualism to serve their constituency, appealing to emotions, fears, and simplifications instead of reason.

Originally posted by Arvaos:

In his book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963), Richard Hofstadter described the repeated suspicion and distrust of intellectuals, experts, and abstractions in American life.

Expertise has no intrinsic value. The value of experts comes from their ability to identify, predict and advise. People become suspicious of experts when their expert opinions contradict reality, or when they are continuously wrong.

For example in an earlier post you mentioned doubt towards man made climate change. The NOAA has weather monitoring stations that they use to track the climate. By the NOAA's own figures 50% of the stations they use do not conform to their own low standards for accuracy and reliability, by other audits this figure goes as high as 96%. Yet they're used to track the climate and make claims of X is the hottest Y since records began (conveniently failing to note that it is not actually since records began since they're disqualifying earlier measures for a supposed "lack of accuracy" despite their current measurements not being accurate by their own admission).

So the "experts" are not reliable to begin with, and then every single prediction they have made for the past century has been wrong.

It's not "DeNiAlIsM!" to discount this "expertise", it is rational. In the same way you do not automatically assume everyone claiming it's the Mayan doomsday this year (or insert other silly thing) is correct, because you know from their track record and the basic trustworthiness of their claims that the chances of them being correct are essentially non-existent.

Originally posted by Arvaos:

Originally posted by Cyberpunk Alien:

Lack of education. The billionaires keep cutting funding to the department of education and college is expensive.

In his book Anti-Intellectualism in American Life (1963), Richard Hofstadter described the repeated suspicion and distrust of intellectuals, experts, and abstractions in American life.

Hofstadter described how popular culture, particularly television and lurid reporting, might make anti-intellectualism stronger by providing publicity to entertainment, emotion, and superficiality instead of critical analysis.

He cautioned that politicians are going to take advantage of anti-intellectualism to serve their constituency, appealing to emotions, fears, and simplifications instead of reason.

Yea no, there is a reverse correlation at this point, the educational funding is just used to indoctrinate children with gender nonsense.

Mississippi schools now out performing blue state ones.
https://www.educationdaly.us/p/mississippi-cant-possibly-have-good

Billionaires don't even trust the blue state schools anymore.l
https://youtu.be/WU-s5CLJvzo

Your "intellectuals" don't know what a woman is at this point, so what good are they.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waEc4YbQQX0

The billionaires have basically made immigrants the scapegoats to explain why it's too expensive to live in the U.S. It's really that they're just greedy. Hitler did the same thing with the jews in Nazi Germany.

Originally posted by Cyberpunk Alien:

The billionaires have basically made immigrants the scapegoats to explain why it's too expensive to live in the U.S. It's really that they're just greedy. Hitler did the same thing with the jews in Nazi Germany.

Its your average leftist that is spending their time trying to stop the deportation of ms-13 members.

Its the law of supply and demand, market labor economics, basic logic, immigrants drive down labor costs and increase housing costs for everyone.

Even Bernie used to know this.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf-k6qOfXz0

Billionaires can afford the increased cost of a legal maid service.

Its the petite bourgeoisie that fear for their supply of slaves
https://youtu.be/unGayQRxtmQ

Its not just America.

COVID was the turning point, nobody trusts "science" or the governments to them after they lied to the world for China. WHO too, no good.

Originally posted by Arvaos:

American denialism refers to the rejection of well-established scientific and historical facts by some Americans, often driven by political agendas or ideological motives, rather than evidence.

Key examples include denial of human-caused climate change, the Holocaust, and the genocide of Indigenous peoples, with denialism sometimes involving tactics like spreading conspiracy theories or cherry-picking data to create a false sense of scientific controversy.

The question is: Why is denialism so prevalent in America more than anywhere else? Is it because they have freedom of speech there?

I really don't know.

You know it all started with the Kennedy assassination and has just grown steadily worse ever since.