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What became "true" just from endless repetition? (reddthat.com)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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You know that feeling when something gets said so many times that people just start treating it as fact, no matter how shaky it was in the first place?

Like, Santa didn’t make the cut, but God sure did.

What are other examples of things that basically became true through repetition alone?

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[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 31 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Communism killed 100 million people.

Private property is required for freedom.

Markets are freedom.

Capitalism is free exchange.

Working the land gives you rights over it.

All of life is competition.

The weak die out and the strong survive.

Evolution is driven by the survival of the individual animals the are most fit for their environment.

The lymph system is not connected to the brain.

Black people have high pain tolerance.

Women have low pain tolerance.

Babies don't feel pain the way we do until they have sufficiently developed.

Human psychological development stops at 18 and after that it's all acquisition of skills and knowledge and the use of discipline and will power.

Fossilization destroys all soft tissue and no soft tissue can survive the process.

Race is genetic.

[–] davel@lemmy.ml 13 points 3 days ago

Fine, Bogart the whole /thread.

[–] ChexMax@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Ooh I've never realized that women and black people are both denied access to pain meds for opposite reasons. I mean I knew it was baloney, but I never thought about the fact that it was exactly contradictory.