For many people, what is true or false depends on who it helps or hurts politically
By Thomas Sowell January 12, 2021
It is amazing how many people seem to have discovered last Wednesday that riots are wrong – when many of those same people apparently had not noticed that when riots went on, for weeks or even months, in various cities across the country last year. For too many people, especially in the media, what is right and wrong, true or false, depends on who it helps or hurts politically. Too many media people who are supposed to be reporters act as if they are combatants in political wars. Someone once said that, in a war, truth is the first casualty. That has certainly been so in the media – and in much of academia as well.
One of the most grotesque distortions growing out of this carelessness with the facts has been a removal of Abraham Lincoln's name and statues from various places, on grounds that he saw black people only as property.
Such criticisms betray an incredible ignorance of history – or else a complete disregard of truth.............To Read More....
My Take - This is the second time I've linked this piece. Because we need to start demanding truth from the media and government. What's truth is the usual meme. Well, here's the answer:
Truth is the sublime convergence of history and reality. Everything has a historical foundation and context. Everything we're told should bear some resemblance to what we see going on in reality. If what's presented to us fails in either category; it's wrong.
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