It’s improper to expect people to provide sources without first doing a rudimentary google search yourself first.

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Often times when someone makes a claim in real life or online that goes against someone’s world view or personal biases, someone in the group will inevitably say “what’s your source?” Or “Source?”. In real life, it’s not as egregious because you can respond immediately and conversation is moving freely. Online this is a bigger issue because most people are not terminally online and conversation is moving slower. Therefore a claim is more likely to get dogpiled by like minded folk like the overused reply of “Trust me bro” and before the original person knows someone even replied to their post there’s a large counter narrative that’s been built not on facts, but on the supposed lack thereof by the person making the original claim. If the claim is truly outlandish and has no sources then this is fairly legitimate for most claims. However, if the claim is either very basic or would show up from multiple reputable sources if you simply googled the claim then it’s really on you if you want a source for it. The difference between outlandish and something that just goes against your assumed biases is a matter of perspective, therefore it should be on you to at least google something before responding online with “Source?” as if that defeats the claim. If you google it and nothing like it is in the top results, then by all means question stuff, but I could literally write “Water is wet” and someone would be out here replying “Source?”. This is true for people of all types of different beliefs and I think it comes from intellectuals legitimately, but way more frequently from pseudo-intellectuals who think they can dismiss a claim just by replying “Source?”

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