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How many times have you seen a conservative repost some email they received full of outrageous claims that are usually debunked before the thread falls off the radar. Yet I never see these kinds of emails posted by liberals.
I think the reason for this is very straight forward and says a something about the two groups. One thing that really sticks out is the lack of respect the people who create these emails for the people who read them. If they really respected them they wouldn't tell them outlandish lies with the faith that the recipient is naive enough to believe them.
The other thing that stands out is the lack of respect the recipients have for themselves. If I had received a bunch of lies from someone and then made a fool of myself by repeating them. I wouldn't trust anything else they ever told me again. But time and time again we see conservatives going back to these same liars for information.
Take the Kagan lie posted today. I Googled the exact phrase "$20 million from Shariah" Law proponents" And received 8600 results. Now you could say that this is because its a well researched story passed among conservative instead of a slew of useful fools and knowing conspirators regurgitating this slop. Except for just one little problem. The word Sharia is misspelled in the original email. Which means what was returned by Google was nothing more than copy and paste without so much as a simple spell check by these conservative sites .
When I see stuff like this I really worry about the misuses of information technology and our society. What really bothers me is it seem as the right doesn't care one wit about its misuse as long as they can gain a short term win by manipulating people who apparently want to be manipulated.
I think the reason for this is very straight forward and says a something about the two groups. One thing that really sticks out is the lack of respect the people who create these emails for the people who read them. If they really respected them they wouldn't tell them outlandish lies with the faith that the recipient is naive enough to believe them.
The other thing that stands out is the lack of respect the recipients have for themselves. If I had received a bunch of lies from someone and then made a fool of myself by repeating them. I wouldn't trust anything else they ever told me again. But time and time again we see conservatives going back to these same liars for information.
Take the Kagan lie posted today. I Googled the exact phrase "$20 million from Shariah" Law proponents" And received 8600 results. Now you could say that this is because its a well researched story passed among conservative instead of a slew of useful fools and knowing conspirators regurgitating this slop. Except for just one little problem. The word Sharia is misspelled in the original email. Which means what was returned by Google was nothing more than copy and paste without so much as a simple spell check by these conservative sites .
When I see stuff like this I really worry about the misuses of information technology and our society. What really bothers me is it seem as the right doesn't care one wit about its misuse as long as they can gain a short term win by manipulating people who apparently want to be manipulated.