Because traditionally, people who used to say that were labeled crackpots and conspiracy theorists. I know because I’ve been rabidly defending my privacy since 1999 and I’ve been called that for 25 years.

Now most people have finally realized what folks like me have been saying for years has actually happened, and the barrage of crackpot-name-calling has largely stopped. But the reflex is still there, and people who talk like me still carry that stigma.

Either that or people don’t like it when you throw the naked truth in their face when it’s really unsettling, and they hate the messenger rather than confronting the message.