How come right-wingers are entitled to "Alternative Facts", but liberals are not???

[DetlefK]

Teaching evolution? Nonono. Only if we also teach the hypothesis of divine creation.

Climate-change? Nonono. What we need is scientists who will come up with radically opposite conclusions.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=1741552



Why are the right-wingers being pandered to? Why are they coddled and given preferential treatment? And why is that taken as normal?

If schools want to teach divine creation according to Christianity, fine. But only if schools also teach the satanistic religious world-view that God is an asshole AND only if schools also teach the chemical and thermodynamical explanations for the origin of life.
TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

Marijuana is bad? It's too bad that's carved into stone and any research into whether Marijuana is bad is sabotaged at every turn.
TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

Guns make a society safer? Too bad that research on whether that's true is sabotaged at every turn.
TEACH THE CONTROVERSY!

[rainy]

1. It's how they keep their voters voting for them and corporate donors

paying for perks

[caroldansen]

2. Exactly. When you give a baby it's bottle they stop crying and screaming. Usually.

[caroldansen]

3. As for why. They prefer to use threats. Democrats use truth, love and logic.

[Zambero]

4. Sometimes actual facts work much better

The right-wing mindset, and indeed movement requires a constant barrage of propaganda in order to rationalize its conclusions. It is not supported by facts, which are constantly disposed of and replaced by altered versions of reality. Climate change is a classic example, and is being played out at the moment with ill-informed policy decisions. It has been suggested that the conservative brain processes information through an emotional filter, while non-conservative brains tend to be more analytical, balancing facts, nuance, and context with beliefs that are already held.

[pnwmom]

5. Because we aren't evil. n/t

[Phoenix61]

6. Exactly

[3_Limes]

7. It's simple really.

They can have double standards. You can't.

[GaYellowDawg]

8. Oh, there are some liberal "alternative facts."

- All GMO's are bad.

- Vaccines cause autism.

- Marijuana is a wonder drug that can cure virtually anything, including cancer.

- Big Pharma has the cure to cancer, but keeps it from us to make profits.

- "Eastern" medicine is as valid as "Western" medicine (e.g., balancing your chi is a medically valid concept)

There are more.