[pmarreck]

A while back, my leftist circles kept repeating ad nauseam that Peter Thiel (who is already in a minority, being gay) is a white nationalist. I suspected bullshit and decided to look into it.

All I could find was this: Peter Thiel once spoke at a libertarian conference. Libertarians, being libertarians, permit racism (read: not the same as "support racism"). THEREFORE, PETER THIEL IS A WHITE NATIONALIST.

Are you fucking serious? I pushed back on my leftist friends with what I found. "Duhhhhh, errrrrr, ummmmm, well... everyone just knows he is!" Oh, really.

Bullshit, repeated often enough as truth, becomes evidence for itself.

[pmarreck]

Honest question, why is this getting downvoted?

[zymhan]

Because it's a straw man argument. GP (you) is talking about some argument their friends made, not something anyone in this thread has said.

[pmarreck]

But it was a related example of how echo chambers can corrupt the truth