Posted on 11/19/2016 9:34:30 AM PST by libertarian27
“Post-truth” has been announced as the Oxford Dictionaries’ international word of the year. It is widely associated with US president-elect Donald Trump’s extravagantly untruthful assertions and the working-class people who voted for him nonetheless. But responsibility for the “post-truth” era lies with the middle-class professionals who prepared the runway for its recent take-off. Those responsible include academics, journalists, “creatives” and financial traders; even the centre-left politicians who have now been hit hard by the rise of the anti-factual.
On November 16, 2016 Oxford Dictionaries announced that “post-truth” had been selected as the word which, more than any other, reflects “the passing year in language”. It defines “post-truth” as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief”.
The word itself can be traced back as far as 1992, but documented usage increased by 2,000% in 2016 compared to 2015. As Oxford Dictionaries’ Casper Grathwohl explained:
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The point is that factually correct means nothing in the face of politically correct. I believe it goes back to some of the gallows humor of the old USSR.
Then Trump needs to plead guilty.
I voted for Trump, and I haven't written a critical word about the guy since he locked up the nomination six months ago.
However, a central part of Trump's popularity was based on his promise to deport all illegal immigrants.
Five days after the election, this is what Trump told 60 Minutes:
“Lesley Stahl: What about the pledge to deport millions and millions of undocumented immigrants?”
“Donald Trump: .....After the border is secured and after everything gets normalized, we’re going to make a determination on the people that you’re talking about...”
That is almost a word-for-word quote from Marco Rubio’s Gang of Eight Senate Amnesty Bill.
Then, six days after the election, Trump hired Reince Priebus as his Chief of Staff.
This is what Reince Priebus told CNN after Rubio’s Bill passed the Senate:
“We need comprehensive immigration reform,” RNC Chairman Reince Priebus told CNN in an interview in his Capitol Hill office.”
Pitiful.
This quote from Bohr doesn’t refute my comments on truth.
If you disagree, tell me how. Maybe I missed something.
Only college educated smart people can be so stupid. Idiots in their ivory towers do nothing but collect HUGE pay checks and invent garbage like this to keep stirring up their students.
Seems to me I remember this phrase being bandied about by happy pundits, at the time.
Funny, I haven't heard the phrase used in a long while.
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