I can’t say it more clearly.
Stop.
Trusting.
News.
Children are getting death threats because you trusted news.
You believed a lie about kids in MAGA hats taunting an elderly native American.
You’re gullible.
You’re foolish.
And your foolish gullibility is fanning the fire of hate.
That makes you wicked.
You’re not merely “mistaken”.
You’re evil.
Stop. Trusting. News.
Instead, guard your mind and heart from deception.
Resist lies.
Turn off the television.
Get off the internet.
I’m not joking.
Remove yourself from all media influences.
You shouldn’t have a Twitter account for the same reason a chimp shouldn’t have a loaded pistol.
STOP. TRUSTING. NEWS.
You’ve become a weapon of mass destruction.
You are hurting people.
Stop commenting.
Stop giving your opinion.
Be quiet.
And…
4 Responses
Alas, it is unlikely that those who need to see this are among your readers. What’s worse, they are likely still unaware of their error in this particular case, because the corrections have come from sources they don’t listen to. Meanwhile, since I avoid their worse-than-useless sources, I never even heard about their lie until I saw Tucker Carlson refuting it.
What do you think he’s trying to say? What’s the deeper meaning? 🙂
I won’t claim that this is what JB has in mind, but for the last few decades, since long before anybody talked about “fake news”, my catch phrase has been “It’s all fake!” – sometimes spoken in jest, sometimes not.
Yes, Mr. Ron.
I am forever indebted to my incredible Political Science Professor, who gently opened the eyes and minds of naive youngsters. He polished us into critical thinkers and B.S. detectors.
I missed the story as well, until I saw mention of it in a conservative, Christian editorial.
John’s piece deserves to be plastered in every liberal, Fake News rag; but of course, as you say, no one who needs to see this, will.