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Buckeye_Democrat

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3. I had an African-American coworker who once said...

Reply to mr_lebowski (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 1, 2021, 11:37 PM

Feb 2021

... truth is decided by the people in power. I asked him to clarify that statement, and he doubled-down that nothing is true unless people in authority deem it so.

That kind of thinking disturbed me, and sure enough... he turned out to be one of the unusual black guys who liked Fox News and voted for Republicans.

EDIT: As a major of mathematics, I had the benefit of recognizing truth from my own proofs that never depended on some "authority" to deem it so.

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