Totally different things to compare
They are separate issues that should be considered independently, but it is the same, unthinking, knee-jerk reaction. Makes you wonder what's going on with these ball earthers.
unthinking
Or maybe it's that so much thought has been put into it already that these ridiculous theories are impossible to view as being in good faith.
If that were the case my comment would be easy to ignore. I wasn't even making an argument about flat earth... merely mentioned it as a passing example.
Frankly, the overreaction to this "ridiculous theory", as you put it, harkens the image of a bunch of reddit-types falling over themselves trying to suppress a wrong think. But I doubt it's actually organic. Moneyed glow-ball-ist interests are funding fake outrage to muddy the waters.
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