[laplata]

I do see your point.

[Weirdad]

Yeah, I hope it IS true (other than the kid dying), but I just don’t want liberals to act like nothing we say could be valid because we believe (whatever) that they think had been debunked.

I would even still tell the story with a little soft disclaimer added, like Wikipedia does. In fact you could just preface it with “It may just be legend, but a story is told that...”