‘Just asking questions’ is what ignoramuses do

‘Just asking questions’ is what ignoramuses do


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Popular Jew-hating conspiracy theorist Candace Owens recently speculated that high-profile tech moguls such as Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Peter Thiel were not humans but rather members of a race of sentinel-human hybrids. If you think that’s stupid, don’t worry, she was just “asking questions.”

At some point in the recent past, millions of people convinced themselves that publicly pondering unhinged, deranged, or idiotic ideas was fine so long as they were framed in the form of a question. Who could

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