gay basing by the Minnesota dept of Transportation employee s
From:
phædrus (Jason Goray)
Date:
Aug 13 21:19 UTC
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*nod*
You're probably right. It's just hard to look at the damage caused by
disinformation and consequential confusion as to what is or is not true or
reality and not feel furious when you see blatant falsehoods being passed
off as truth.
When that disinformation and confusion results in harm being done, it is
even more infuriating.
The thing is, knowingly making a false crime report is false. So are the
lies involved in many confidence scams.
In a similar vein, it seems like if it could be demonstrably proved beyond a
shadow of a doubt that you knew that what you were saying was not true, that
would be a far different situation than persecuting someone because their
perception of the truth was outside the norm.
If it can be proven (again, beyond a shadow of a doubt), that those lies had
a tangible impact on society, I'm not sure how that is materially different
than what a con-artist does.
- phaedrus
> -- phaedrus <<email obscured>> wrote:
> Reading this:
>
> > * "91% of non-familial molestations were committed by clear [target
> group]"
> > * 73% of [target group] are pedophiles.
> > * Most teenagers become [target group] following recruitment/abuse from
> an adult [target group].
> > * They make a long list of outlandish sexual acts in which most [target
> group] participate and that produce disease
> > * Because of the perverse sexual acts in which he engages, the typical
> [target group] lives an average of 40 years.
> > * Because [target group] are carriers of disease, they are responsible
> for many health outbreaks that affect society at large.
>
> Even though I am making an effort not to fall prey to Godwin's Law,
> nothing comes to mind other than the sorts of propaganda used by the
> Nazi regime to legitimize the slaughter of the Jewish people.
>
> Except, for perhaps the sorts of propaganda used by christian
> neo-fascists and islamofascists to legitimize the slaughter of the
> Jewish people.
>
> I really do believe in the freedom of speech, but sometimes I wonder
> if there should be some concept of crimes against reality or crimes
> against the truth.
>
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