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Truth is now considered a right-wing conspiracy.
That’s the chilling line from Melanie Phillips that stopped me in my tracks.
She explains how we’ve reached a point where simply stating observable reality — whether it’s basic biology defining a woman or pushing back against blanket accusations that all white people are inherently bad — gets you branded as evil. Not wrong. Evil. Therefore you must be silenced, cancelled, or erased. No debate. No evidence allowed.
She calls it cultural totalitarianism: a Manichean worldview where one ideology claims a monopoly on goodness, progress, and reason itself. Dissent isn’t argued with — it’s treated as a moral threat that has to be removed.
The deepest irony? In an era that smugly ditched religion in the name of superior rationality, we’ve ended up rejecting reason, evidence, and open inquiry altogether. We’re so “rational” we’ve dispensed with the very tools of rationality.
It doesn’t add up.
Her take has me wondering how we got here — and how quickly disagreement turned into moral excommunication.
Anyone else seeing this pattern play out in conversations lately? Where have you felt truth itself become off-limits?
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