"One of the first posts I saw this morning on social media was about a well-documented instance where a Minnesota family’s six children were hospitalized after their minivan filled with smoke and tear gas fired by federal agents. Below the news report, someone had dismissed it in the comments: 'I don’t believe it.' That was it. No explanation, nothing that cast doubt on the reporting. Just a rejection."
~ Joyce Vance
"In her essay, Truth and Politics, Hannah Arendt wrote, 'The result of a consistent and total substitution of lies for factual truth is not that the lie will now be accepted as truth and truth be defamed as a lie, but that the sense by which we take our bearings in the real world—and the category of truth versus falsehood is among the mental means to this end—is being destroyed.'”
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