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Post Truth

TheCatWoman

What does this phrase actually mean, we keep getting told we live in a post truth world, but do we really? Does it mean I can choose not to believe in anything I choose and claim some kind of discrimination of someone tells me to stop being so daft?

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  • Oh yeah, post-truth is a huge problem here in America. It really feels like there are two separate realities here that are completely incompatible with one another.

  • in reply to profdanger

    Thats the sort of thing I mean, I think I first became aware of it during Trump's first term in office, when they started talking about "alternative facts", it makes no sense at all. I'm not a black and white person, and love the grey areas, but this is too much even for me. You have to have a factual basis to work from, you can't suddenly decide that something isn't true because you don't like it, I mean what would happen if people suddenly decided gravity was a lie, would they be surprised that they and everything in thier vicinity didn't start floating about? I think for me worst part of all this is the lack of challenging and calling it out, I know it's more difficult when it a President, but even so! 

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  • in reply to profdanger

    Thats the sort of thing I mean, I think I first became aware of it during Trump's first term in office, when they started talking about "alternative facts", it makes no sense at all. I'm not a black and white person, and love the grey areas, but this is too much even for me. You have to have a factual basis to work from, you can't suddenly decide that something isn't true because you don't like it, I mean what would happen if people suddenly decided gravity was a lie, would they be surprised that they and everything in thier vicinity didn't start floating about? I think for me worst part of all this is the lack of challenging and calling it out, I know it's more difficult when it a President, but even so! 

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