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The surprising origins of ‘post-truth’ – and how it was spawned by the liberal left
The Conversation ^ | Nov 18, 2016 | Andrew Calcutt

Posted on 11/19/2016 9:34:30 AM PST by libertarian27

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To: Cicero

The point is that factually correct means nothing in the face of politically correct. I believe it goes back to some of the gallows humor of the old USSR.


21 posted on 11/19/2016 10:51:50 AM PST by reformedliberal
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To: libertarian27
Is “post-truth” the same thing as “post-election-truth?”

Then Trump needs to plead guilty.

I voted for Trump, and I haven't written a critical word about the guy since he locked up the nomination six months ago.

However, a central part of Trump's popularity was based on his promise to deport all illegal immigrants.

Five days after the election, this is what Trump told 60 Minutes:

“Lesley Stahl: What about the pledge to deport millions and millions of undocumented immigrants?”

“Donald Trump: .....After the border is secured and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that you’re talking about...”

That is almost a word-for-word quote from Marco Rubio’s Gang of Eight Senate Amnesty Bill.

Then, six days after the election, Trump hired Reince Priebus as his Chief of Staff.

This is what Reince Priebus told CNN after Rubio’s Bill passed the Senate:

“We need comprehensive immigration reform,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told CNN in an interview in his Capitol Hill office.”

Pitiful.

22 posted on 11/19/2016 10:56:35 AM PST by zeestephen
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To: sparklite2

This quote from Bohr doesn’t refute my comments on truth.

If you disagree, tell me how. Maybe I missed something.


23 posted on 11/19/2016 11:17:54 AM PST by reasonisfaith ("...because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved." (2 Thessalonians))
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To: libertarian27

Only college educated smart people can be so stupid. Idiots in their ivory towers do nothing but collect HUGE pay checks and invent garbage like this to keep stirring up their students.


24 posted on 11/19/2016 11:40:33 AM PST by Organic Panic (Gentrification in America. Rich White Man Evicts Poor Black Family - MSNBCPBSCNNNYTABC)
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To: libertarian27
Didn't the 2008 election of Barack Obama usher in a glorious "post-racial" America?

Seems to me I remember this phrase being bandied about by happy pundits, at the time.

Funny, I haven't heard the phrase used in a long while.

25 posted on 11/19/2016 12:04:10 PM PST by shhrubbery! (NIH!)
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