The Myth of Objectivity -- And Why Calling Things "Facts" Is a Rhetorical Tactic, Not an Epistemological Claim

We keep using the word 'fact' as if it were neutral when every statement is filtered through selective evidence and linguistic framing; what you call objectivity is actually just the consensus view of whoever happens to control the information gate -- I refuse to pretend that our stated observations aren't already loaded with unexamined assumptions about what matters.