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This week's comic: "Polarization" is a reality-obscuring weasel word

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"Polarization" IT'S A COMMON REFRAIN THESE DAYS. NATTERING NOGGINS HOSTS: THE PROBLEM AS I SEE IT IS THAT AMERICA HAS BECOME TOO POLARIZED. YES, IT'S SO SAD. BUT THE TERM "POLARIZATION" CAN BE A FORM OF BOTH-SIDESING THAT OBSCURES SPECIFICS. ARMED EXTREMIST: I'M HERE TO STOP THE TRANSGENDERS FROM DESTROYING THE COUNTRY. TRANSGENDER PERSON: I PREFER NOT TO DIE, AND SOMETIMES SHARE THIS OPINION! WHEN A MOVEMENT BECOMES EXTREMIST, DO WE REALLY WANT TO SEE THE OPPOSITION AS PART OF THE PROBLEM? MAN: ANYONE WHO HELPS A 10 YEAR-OLD RAPE VICTIM GET AN ABORTION SHOULD GO TO JAIL! WOMAN: THAT'S BARBARIC AND I'M GOING TO DO EVERYTHING I CAN TO FIGHT IT. POLARIZATION ALERT WOULD THIS BE BETTER? MAN IN MILITARY GEAR: YOU WILL DO AS I SAY, SUBHUMAN! LATINO MAN: I WILL POLITELY ACQUIESCE! HOW NICE! NO MORE POLARIZATION!
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in physics, polarization of light means that you can only see a tiny sliver of reality.

Basically, polarisation looks like this youtu.be/aiMLJAZajxg

Keep up the great work 😎

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