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The extinction of thinking

The extinction of thinking

Useful idiots fall for one subversive idea after another

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Melanie Phillips
Sep 07, 2020
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Extinction Rebellion “swarming roadblocks”, November 2018

Shamefully, it has taken until the disruption of newspaper production in Britain over the weekend for people to regard Extinction Rebellion as a dangerous menace.

Until then it was viewed indulgently, and even with approval, as a group of earnest young “protesters” trying to wake people up to the i…

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