When pigs fly

[cjsmith]

The Netherlands’ national airline is encouraging people not to fly

Comments

[amaebi]

"Some Dutch politicians have already dismissed the campaign as simple greenwashing."

That paragraph does continue to specify more incisive policy that isn't just plaintive advisory.

But I wanted to call out this dialectic move of doubting the reformer's sincerity or motives. It's terrifically common, not generally relevant, and seems to be widely accepted.

[cjsmith]

To me it reads like filler. I worry that it is taken for content by some readers.

[amaebi]

That argument and ones that I think have to be derived from it are made regularly by conservatives-- but I think they've been getting called on it, in that it seems (in my tiny lens) to be in some decline.