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No, because someone can always concoct a lie that is stranger than truth, but why would they? The purpose of a lie is to be believed.
"Something they didn't know enough about" is not necessarily a lie. Someone can easily not know enough about the truth and be confounded by a clever liar (Eve, for instance).
Is threats of physical violence now progressive protected free speech?
If one part of the debate are free to just stack arguments whether they are true or not, that is just a (badly performed) gish gallop. There is still tax on tips and tax on overtime as well, the bill just made a portion of it deductible under some circumstances. It's disingenuous debating.
In this case “The Left” was one troubled young man. And “radicalized?” No free choice in the matter? Like ignorant little sheep?
True but the definition of the phrase"truth stanger than fiction" is: an expression that means real-life events can be more bizarre, unusual, or unbelievable than even the wildest fictional stories
The word I used is "malarkey". Which is closer to "nonsense" than "lie". Often Kirk's challengers would confront him with erroneous misinformation they believed to be true. And being like a human encyclopedia, Charlie would dismantle them.
Under Critical Theory, it's moral for the Oppressed class to threaten physical violence against the Oppressor class.
Or spew a large quantity of his own erroneous misinformation that they were not prepared to counter. Same difference, really.
Because Kirk took it apart with facts and if they weren't demonstrating much skill. They were 20s US college students after all.
Facts are easy enough to verify. There were a lot of very knowledgeable people who respected Kirk. I doubt they would have if he was a liar. Unless you want to start going into conspiracy theory territory that they were all in on it or whatever.
Again, there are extremely knowledgeable people who respected young Kirk and admired his level of knowledge.Or spew a large quantity of his own erroneous misinformation that they were not prepared to counter. Same difference, really.
Okay? Fortunately I have eyes and ears, I don't need to take the word of these supposed "extremely knowledgeable" people on this.
I just had a random thought. I with all these liberals getting fired, I wonder if they are going to blame Trump for the sudden jump in the unemployment rate?
Are you suggesting tens of thousands of liberals are being fired?
Just think how great it would be if all our our political foes were suddenly “out-of-work”!
Again I say, if they believe someone should be killed because of their opinion, they should not be upset for being fired because of their own opinion.
How far back are we going? Because stifling dissent has been an element of human society since, basically, the beginning of time. By definition, it's a "conservative" act in that it seeks to maintain order, control, and the status quo, regardless of where the rest of the actors' political philosophies lie. One could argue that the crucifixion of Jesus, for example, was a manifestation of cancel culture. Fast forward a couple thousand years and it was practiced by authoritarian regimes on both the right and the left throughout the 20th century. In the US, McCarthyism and black listing were a pretty prominent example of it, as were the attacks on anybody who'd dare upend segregation, even by integrating their own business.
Black women started the modern concept of "cancel culture" specifically to identify and stop supporting black celebrities who did not respect black people and black causes...the "Uncle Ruckuses" among black people.
