RE: 250 Years, Immigration, and Me
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History being re-written yet again by another winner. Retold to their liking, based on their facts. There's a lot of revision of history going on in the world, unfortunately, and the POTUS is one of them. In Germany, we have the same, politicians calling the Nazi Regime a "bird shit in history", trying to give it less importance as they want to connect to the "values" from back then.
Populism thrives with those lies. One might think that with all the information in the world available, people would be interested and research. But I guess most are just overwhelmed by the amount of information and believe everything.
This was a great post to read, saddening, but still great. Thank you!
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I don't know. I think people read and choose to believe 'information' that reinforces their biases. There is so much out there. It takes work to read contrary views. I try hard to do that.
Today's news, for example about the agreement between Trump and Iran. I looked around the world to see what different news sources had to say. It was amazing. It's almost as though they were all reporting on a different event.
Thank you for reading and liking my post. It took some work and that makes it worthwhile.
Yeah that, too. It's easier to stick to the bias.
I generally go by the motto "If I don't have time, I don't have an opinion." as for not being able to research enough to feel comfortable stating an informed opinion. Rather shutting up. Unfortunately, I'm sometimes the only one like that, and have to listen to a huge amount of half-baked or unqualified opinions. And people don't like when you point that out :-D