Here's the problem with that statement. It doesn't square. The very issue at the root of this, is that those who have intellectually pursued greater truths, assume that by the virtue of their discovered rightness, they are then somehow allowed to abdicate from their duty to engage, compel, and empathetically persuade those who aren't yet aware of said truth. And when people start browbeating and using societal shame to convince someone of a greater truth or argument, they have already lost in the battle for enlightenment. Enlightenment is based on a mutual moral respect on the virtue of existing in humanity.

We who hold the truth should be warriors in every walk of life, cultivating and facilitating a wiser, happier society so that we all can thrive. We combat any lack of intellectualism with a graceful and earnest effort, not with proclamations and exclamations about what is or isn't right. Provided your goal isn't power or exile, in which case you want to scream and shout and incite a mob.

So if he says the earth is flat and we resort to finger pointing and pontificating about how wrong he is and how wrong it is, and we don't instead take steps to combat it in the arena of civil discourse, we lose anyway.

There are real problems in today's world and they go systemically and fundamentally farther below than the grade school knowledge that the world is round. That is a relatively recent discovery and an essential one, but it doesn't displace that there are more serious woes to address and if we can be agitated over something like this, why are we not outraged over the things we allow to continue in our world?

It's not the most nuanced way of drawing attention to this, but at some point, the fact that we have the luxury to debate what Kyrie Irving thinks about the shape of the planet is fundamentally absurd, especially when compared to the vast majority of what exists.