No, You're Not Entitled To Your Opinion

A thought-provoking article from Patrick Stokes:

The problem with “I’m entitled to my opinion” is that, all too often, it’s used to shelter beliefs that should have been abandoned. It becomes shorthand for “I can say or think whatever I like” – and by extension, continuing to argue is somehow disrespectful. And this attitude feeds, I suggest, into the false equivalence between experts and non-experts that is an increasingly pernicious feature of our public discourse.

This is relevant given the rise in false equivalency perpetuated by the modern media. Hell, some even advertise their existence on this flawed notion.¹

(via: Ryan May)