Damned with faint praise
My favorite lie detector story(and true as far I can verify it, knowing the nurse personally) involved a husband of said nurse who was going for a federal job in a field he was good at. Part of the hiring process was to be able to pass a lie detector test. He faced an African American technician who was asking the questions and operating the machine and did the final analysis. The usual questions ran well but the tech added one question of his own...”Are you a racist?”(the job applicant was white) Thinking quickly on his feet the job applicant said ...”Oh hell yeah!: despite the question not being on the standard list and despite the fact that the applicant didn’t have a racist bone in his body according to his wife. The technician passed the applicant who then asked him....”So what if I had said no I wasn’t a racist and the machine showed that I was telling the truth?” The tech said he still would have failed him because he just knew “that all white people were racists and couldn’t let any white person through who had somehow cheated the test!”!!!!
That’s when I knew that the whole racism /woke crap was a whole bunch of gaslighting hooey that can go to the Blazes as far as I’m concerned...and Lie detector tests can go there too!