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Lying without Lying: Do Millions of Americans Really Believe Police Kill 10,000 Unarmed Black Men Each Year?

Lying without Lying: Do Millions of Americans Really Believe Police Kill 10,000 Unarmed Black Men Each Year?

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You can teach people lies without actually lying to them.

If you do sprinkle in some lies, artfully told, that will expedite the process of deception. But lying itself isn’t necessary.

Consider how the monoculture operates.

The Eight Percenters who dominate our cultural institutions have long played an outsized role in sh…

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