Amen. If it’s not double and triple checked, it’s dubious.
I just got sent, today, that great series of steps of human progression attributed to “1887 Alexander Tyler, a Scottish history professor at the
University of Edinburgh.” I agree with the sentiment of freedom to slavery etc, but I’ve seen that deal debunked over and over forever, but it still gets resurrected, like dozens of bogus quotes “by” Hitler, Jefferson, etc.
It gets harder and harder to verify anything in the internet era where bogus but realistic-appearing websites proliferate. And it’s not just an academic exercise, it has real-world consequences, because millions of “low information voters” take as gospel what they see on MSM television, and God helps us, the internet.
So would either of you dispute that A LOT of civilians died as a result of the US Civil War?
My point stands whether 10,000 or 250,000 of civilians died as a result of our Civil War. All historians put the number in at least the 10s of thousands....and lately in the field of military deaths from that war, the estimates have gone up.
Right you are!
"Never trust anything you read on the Internet."
Thomas Jefferson, 1788
“It gets harder and harder to verify anything in the internet era where bogus but realistic-appearing websites proliferate.”
There’s a commercial playing on the radio spewing the nonsense that if you don’t have a professional looking website nobody will take your business seriously.