The NPR/Wikipedia lady believes truth is what enough people can be convinced to believe.
@ConceptualJames Sounds suspiciously like Reflexive Alchemy… 🤔
This is the entire left—either perpetrating this or suffering from its effects. A person on X today tried to tell me, while posting a screenshot of the 1st amendment about free exercise of religion, that it contains the phrase “separation of church and state.” Clearly it does not contain it (as you know, it’s from Jefferson’s correspondence with the Danbury Baptists) but because this person has been brainwashed to believe it, he/she claimed it was true while looking right at the 1st amendment text and seeing that it’s noticeably missing. I’m trying to be kind and explain things to this person, but wow, the brainwashing has totally incinerated any ability on the left to exercise any degree of rational or critical thinking. It’s really sad actually.
@ConceptualJames She's doing nothing but stating the fallacy of ad populum.
@ConceptualJames She learned that from the U.S. federal government.
@ConceptualJames Exactly what Trotsky, Lenin, and Goebbels preached. See a pattern?
@ConceptualJames "If you lie big enough, loud enough, and often enough, it becomes the truth."
@ConceptualJames Goebbels would be so proud.
@ConceptualJames She is simply saying “perception is reality” 😉
@ConceptualJames It's worse than that: truth is what serves woke political purposes. The attitude toward truth is entirely instrumental, which is to say that information is a tool of political manipulation. This is supposed to be liberating, but has (already) the opposite effect.