It also "made sense" to most Americans that Iraq had WMDs. Colin Powell even said so, and he was greatly respected despite his participation in covering up the My Lai Massacre.

[–] FaceDeer@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A bunch of whataboutism that has no relevance to the subject at hand.

[–] CarlMarks@lemmygrad.ml -2 points 1 year ago

Accusations of whataboutism are a thought-terminating cliché that, ironically, usually just help the accuser avoid engaging with a critical argument.

The relevance here is that using "it sounds right to me" to decide whether a media narrative is true will lead a person to make big mistakes. And I am criticizing the general lack of media criticism in this thread.