randylahey wrote: ↑Thu Oct 03, 2024 9:16 am
We live in a time where people within our government are actively trying to censor and hide facts that inconvenience them. We've seen it time and time again, where they try to dismiss something as a "conspiracy" and then it later is proven to be true. There's a long list of things in the past 5 years that went through this process.
I get nobody wants to he duped or bullshitted, but we should all be able to agree that it comes from both sides, and it sucks we can't actually count on government officials to tell us the real truth on anything.
Funnily enough, the term "conspiracy theorist" was actually coined back in the 60s by our government, as a way of destroying credibility of citizens that were speaking out against their shady tactics and behaviors
"While much of the literature points to the twentieth-century philosopher Karl Popper and his famous work The Open Society and Its Enemies (1st edition: 1945), newspaper databases allow us to locate earlier occurrences of “conspiracy theory.” They reveal that the term proliferates in newspapers from the 1870s onward, particularly after the assassination of President Garfield in July 1881."
https://academic.oup.com/book/25369/cha ... m=fulltext
"CLAIM: The terms “conspiracy theory” and “conspiracy theorist” were created by the Central Intelligence Agency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy as a way of discrediting people who doubted the government’s official reports.
AP’S ASSESSMENT: False. Recorded use of the phrase “conspiracy theory” dates back to at least 1863, and it was notably invoked in reports following the 1881 shooting of then-President James A. Garfield, more than 60 years before the CIA was established. An academic review of the digital library JSTOR found the term “conspiracy theorist” had been published at least in the year before Kennedy’s death.
THE FACTS: Following the National Archives’ release last month of an additional 12,879 documents related to Kennedy’s death, interest in longstanding myths about the president’s 1963 shooting has resurged on social media. Among these myths is what some scholars have called a “meta-conspiracy theory” — the belief that the CIA, as part of an unproven coverup, coined the term “conspiracy theory” to discredit people who accused the CIA of orchestrating Kennedy’s killing."
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-c ... 1578119864
You've been duped again by your MAGA sources. But cool story.