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You are correct that neither perspective is wrong. But it seems outrageously myopic and self absorbed to conclude that the people focused on "Twitter experts" (which include everyone from the media up to the Chief medical advisor to the President) care more about political consequences than the truth.
The people you refer to as experts are not the experts presented to the public, while the people presented to the public as experts shape public policy, so yes, we do care about political consequences and the wielding of power. This is the culture war thread after all. But the reason we are flipping out is because the twitter experts are the ones with actual power over society, and they are lying their asses off 90% of the time, and trying to hide their ignorance the other 10%. It is precisely the truth that we care about.
What's more, you have developed a definition of expert which renders everything you say inscrutable (at best) to everyone else, which is generally only good for sticking your head in the sand, not for engaging in thoughtful conversations.
Yeah I'm sorry, saying you are sticking your head in the sand was dumb - you're here after all, and you engage as much as you can from what I've seen. It totally fucked up the point of that paragraph too, because what I was really driving at was that it negatively impacts your ability to have conversations here about the culture war, because people either won't understand you or will think you are behaving maliciously.
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