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Back in 2006 at the White House Correspondent's Dinner, Stephen Colbert said "reality has a well known liberal bias" which I thought was a pretty funny line.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Colbert_at_the_2006_Wh...

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I think about facets of this a lot. The conservative ideals of thinking only in zero-sum characterizations of political problems, that someone must go without in order for someone to gain, or that a conservative ideal is to be led by some authority both don't comport with how knowledge can also be gained in society through peer to peer relationships or the very idea that wealth can be created. That the world doesn't have to follow conservative ideals is how a statement like that becomes so funny since it is the current conspiratorial reflex of the right.

Yeah, we're all aware. Midwits have been repeating it ever since.[0]

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