To recap, three policemen arrive on scene and the obese 16 year old female attacker first goes after some young “plus size” female in shorts, who falls down backwards and gets kick in the head by a young slim black male in sweat pants and hoody. Here is the thing about the whole situation that amazed me as I watched the video from the officer’s body cam. “Shooting a black girl trying to kill another black girl is racist.” We can see the video and no that you are lying but we are forced to believe what we know is a lie. I did also come across the Gorokhova quote, but the last phrase makes it unusable as I don’t pretend to believe them. I suppose I should update it to say “attributed to” Solzhenitsyn. Yes, I found the quote at the bottom of a Watt’s Up With That post and tried to find a good attribution. (found via this discussion of the Solzhenitsyn quote.) A Mountain of Crumbs: A Memoir, by Elena Gorokhova, Simon & Schuster, 2009, page 181 “The rules are simple: they lie to us, we know they’re lying, they know we know they’re lying but they keep lying anyway, and we keep pretending to believe them.” However, a variation on that quote may be found in a recent memoir about life in the Soviet Union: I personally suspect that it is an old saying whose origin among the Soviet people cannot be determined, much like so many of those old Soviet jokes. Nor have I seen it in any “curated” collection of Solzhenitsyn quotes. I have seen that attribution very frequently (no surprise, given the corrupt times we live in) but never with a citation of a specific source. It appears that Solzhenitsyn may not have said this–or at least did not originate it. April’s theme is ‘April’s Showers Bring….‘ If you’re looking to share your own thoughts rather than those of others, please sign up for Group Writing too! Hurry and reserve your slot, because they aren’t making any more of them, and if you miss them, they’ll be gone forever!Īnother ongoing project to encourage new voices is our Group Writing Project. There are only two empty days left: April 26 and 27 (I think). The problem is that, as Churchill pointed out, it’s really hard to explain away the truth, because no matter what, “there it is.” Strangely enough, that works - at least if you’re on the correct side of the political spectrum.Īnd then there is “implausibly undeniablility,” when a person struggles to explain away something that’s actually true, because the truth has suddenly become inconvenient or politically incorrect. Quite a while back we entered new territory: “implausible deniability.” That’s what you have when, for example, someone apologizes for having said out loud what we all know they’re really thinking. There has long been something known as “plausible deniability.”
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