TheAncientGeek comments on [Stub] The problem with Chesterton's Fence - Less Wrong Discussion
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If that is the case, then it is applicable even less often than it is applied, since it tends to be applied in cases where the removers have reasons that go far beyond "not knowing it is there". Invariably, they want something removed because they don't like its consequences.
Your statement doesn't look falsifiable.
Maybe not, in the sense that most politically charged claims aren't falsifiable.
Now that doesn't look true to me. What may be true is that many of them are not concerned with the truth of the claim, but that's not quite the same thing.