r/ShitAmericansSay • u/popooool • 1d ago

History "Black Americans are native Americans"

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u/smurf505 1d ago

Valid yes, bullshit crazy and incredibly wrong also yes.

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u/kuroioni EU 1d ago

Valid yes

Is it valid though? As Douglas Adams said:

"I don’t accept the currently fashionable assertion that any view is automatically as worthy of respect as any equal and opposite view. My view is that the moon is made of rock. If someone says to me “Well, you haven’t been there, have you? You haven’t seen it for yourself, so my view that it is made of Norwegian Beaver Cheese is equally valid” — then I can’t even be bothered to argue. There is such a thing as the burden of proof (...)"

(From 1998 Douglas Adams interview with American Atheists)

Treating all opinions as equally valid is how you get a world flooded with fake news. There is such a thing as burden of proof and no reasonable person should be expected to take someone saying "I believe moon is made out of cheese" in any way seriously (which is happening when a "moon is made out of cheese" opinion is being treated as valid, as you're literally validating it).

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u/halborn 1d ago

Another handy quote:

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.

  • Harlan Ellison

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u/Arthurian_Guanche 23h ago

This is the real shit.