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Do you not see that you are behaving in an anti-factual, irrationally prejudiced manner?
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Not only did Ronald Reagan succeed in wooing many working-class Democrats to right-wing policies that savaged their own economic interests, but he showed how anti-factual propaganda could gull millions of Americans if they didn't hear a strong counter-argument.
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That would be a little more polite than doubling down with more anti-factual snark.
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Not only did Ronald Reagan succeed in wooing many working-class Democrats to right-wing policies that savaged their own economic interests, but he showed how anti-factual propaganda could gull millions of Americans if they didn't hear a strong counter-argument.
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It seems completely and unashamedly anti-factual and I am certainly not going to link to it.
Archive 2007-08-05 2007
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It seems completely and unashamedly anti-factual and I am certainly not going to link to it.
Archive 2007-08-01 2007
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It seems completely and unashamedly anti-factual and I am certainly not going to link to it.
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Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth-consuming, hostility-provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.
The God Delusion Dawkins, Richard, 1941- 2006
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But even non-idiots are influenced by Big Propaganda such as Fox, talk Radio and other aggressive anti-factual media campaigns.
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Today, watching how our political discourse seems, depressingly, to still be dominated by blatantly anti-factual claims (such as the notion that $862 billion in stimulus spending didn't create one new job, as newly elected Senator Scott Brown recently claimed), it's worth asking whether Schmidt's pronouncement was way too optimistic.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Micah Sifry 2010
hernesheir commented on the word anti-factual
To me, this term is a modern euphemism for "not-true", an adjectival statement that implies a statement is a lie.
June 17, 2010