Comment on Never Forget

• koavf@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I am genuinely disappointed that on an ostensibly science-related message board I see comments along the lines “this isn’t actually true, but it kinda-sorta is, therefore, inaccurate claims somehow aren’t misinformation”. If all kinds of counter-factual things were true, then all kinds of things would be true: what is the point of this hand-waving that to defend something that is riddled with untruths? Also, with whom did he purportedly share these documents? In 22 words, this person got no fewer than two things wrong and you are carrying water for what reason?

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  • AOCapitulator@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Law is not science, it’s politics. This is a political distinction, not a matter of the laws of reality

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    • koavf@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was wrong and it should be not wrong. Odd that that is a controversial statement and that you used Reddit-level reasoning about a dissertation when someone just wants others to not spread untruths.

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      • AOCapitulator@hexbear.net ⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I don’t disagree it should have been phrased more accurately. The truest version is always the best.

        The point of this post was not the legal distinction between charged and convicted. The person posting it could just as easily not known or cared about the distinction

        I think the detail you’re arguing about is about as impactful as what color shirt someone was wearing in an account of history.

        I’m not endorsing misinforming people, thank you for correcting that bit of information, its does not change the essence of why this information is being shared, or the conclusion it brings us to

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