The Human Condition Doesn’t Make It Easy for You to Filter Through the Lies
Cognitive dissonance hurts, and that’s why you’ll lose friends and elections.
An interesting thing happened the other day. There is a video where a Black man makes allegations about the Democratic candidate for Vice President. The video has been proven false. The person making the allegations is likely a paid actor, or just another internet troll. They seem to have taken the information from a real student of the candidate’s, back when the candidate was a teacher at a high school. They then make allegations of impropriety. The Washington Post found the real person that the video impersonator claims to be, so the story has been debunked.
This has not stopped the video from being widely shared by people who claim it is a fact, or that it is some form of “smoke where there could be fire.” One of those people is a friend and colleague of mine. They shared the video with me via a link to Twitter. I almost instantly replied I read the Washington Post fact-check, and he was surprised I would “know so much” about the video. “Are you always looking for ways to defend the liberals?” he asked.
“No, I’m always on the lookout to defend the truth. Truth, Justice, and the American Way, remember?” I texted back, referencing an old joke between us about me…
