Who determines what is considered good faith, though? Who sets the line between fact and fiction?
One of the issues we encounter in this sort of scenario is that the media has a habit of forcing “two sides” perspectives of issues that have one objectively correct answer because the topic is needlessly politicized. News stories about the effects of climate change should not be held up next to counterarguments that question the validity/motivations of the scientific community, but they are anyways because one party believes that they can legislate truth.
Whichever party is in power at the time is the one that gets to control how this nebulous standard would be applied, and so you’re only one Christofascist movement away from climate change being a debatable subject and religious doctrine being indisputable fact.
See most civilized countries get around this by just banning the christofascist parties from even trying to build a movement.
There’s two prongs you can hit this from, first, holocaust denialism/minimization, second, supremacism/nationalism, voila, you’ve banned fascist movements without beginning to play whackamole with new right wing parties that just redress the same old bullshit in new lines and rhetoric.
There’s also implementing the BITE model as legal grounds to forcibly disband an organization, that is if an organization is attempting to take control over its members’ Behavior, Information, Thoughts, and Emotions, hunting orgs that tick that list will nip proto-fascist-movements in the bud before they can even rise to being an organized christofascist party that has to have the ban hammer brought down on them for thinking the Jews start wild fires with space lasers.
Who determines what is considered good faith, though? Who sets the line between fact and fiction?
One of the issues we encounter in this sort of scenario is that the media has a habit of forcing “two sides” perspectives of issues that have one objectively correct answer because the topic is needlessly politicized. News stories about the effects of climate change should not be held up next to counterarguments that question the validity/motivations of the scientific community, but they are anyways because one party believes that they can legislate truth.
Whichever party is in power at the time is the one that gets to control how this nebulous standard would be applied, and so you’re only one Christofascist movement away from climate change being a debatable subject and religious doctrine being indisputable fact.
See most civilized countries get around this by just banning the christofascist parties from even trying to build a movement.
There’s two prongs you can hit this from, first, holocaust denialism/minimization, second, supremacism/nationalism, voila, you’ve banned fascist movements without beginning to play whackamole with new right wing parties that just redress the same old bullshit in new lines and rhetoric.
There’s also implementing the BITE model as legal grounds to forcibly disband an organization, that is if an organization is attempting to take control over its members’ Behavior, Information, Thoughts, and Emotions, hunting orgs that tick that list will nip proto-fascist-movements in the bud before they can even rise to being an organized christofascist party that has to have the ban hammer brought down on them for thinking the Jews start wild fires with space lasers.