During these last years of intense anti-democracy propaganda online I had an interesting chat with someone who turned out to be aggressively pro-dictatorship.
His no.1 argument was that 'people are stupid' and can't be trusted to participate... which, without the pillars of democracy, has a tiny kernel of truth. (Although a lawless indoctrinated, ignorant, fearful and angry mob doesn't equate to democracy...)
All the rest that followed was misinfo or disinfo straight from propaganda that, when refuted as false, only introduced the next false claim and finally the whatabouts that had nothing to do with any of previous points.
Despite living in a full-blown disinfo space and being pointed out it was based on constant falsehoods *he* felt *informed*.
"Must we"? IMO no obligation.
Is quoting something that someone wrote a blanket endorsement of that person who wrote or said it? I'd say no.
Was Martin Luther King aware that significant aspects of Thomas Jefferson were garbage? IMO, likely. Did he none-the-less quote him in promotion of liberty and holding America to account? IMO hell yeah, very effectively.
And before anyone gets too smug about that Isaac Asimov quote, let us note that Stephen Hawking's last book, due out soon, proves that his previous best seller was wrong.
This isn't the first time Stephen has done this.
Your 'knowledge' is, at best, tentative, and, unfortunately, their ignorance is eternal 🤣
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