Zone1 Intellectual Honesty

[Dragonlady]

It really depends though. There are many fundamentalists who honestly believe what they believe and they are not being at all intellectually dishonest when they say what they believe. They may be very very wrong, but they believe it.

Again intellectual honesty does not require a person to be right. Only that the person sincerely believes he/she is right in his/her belief.

But those who promote concepts/situations/events in ways that they know in their hearts and minds are not the whole story or the actual story at all are being intellectually dishonest. when they do that.

Example:
The MSM/'legacy media' of course had to see the signs that Joe Biden was suffering from advanced dementia and there was no way he was actually doing the job of President of the United States. But they continued to defend and protect him and refused to report what they knew. And then there was that terrible debate between Trump and Biden that I am convinced set Biden up so they could pretend for the first time to see how mentally damaged he was.

And that set the stage for the Democrat Party to remove him as candidate for a second presidential term.

All that was blatant intellectual dishonesty on the part of those who desperately wanted to believe but you know they really didn't.

Intellectual honesty requires that you seek the truth, and know the truth, as well as speak it. If you honestly believe something that isn't true, you are not being intellectually honest at all because you have no idea of the truth of your beliefs.

Are You Intellectually Honest?

Do you know propaganda when you see it? Do you use logical fallacies without realizing it? Being intellectually honest is more necessary now than ever.

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Joe Biden does not have "advanced dementia". That's a complete lie. He older and his stamina is an issue, leading to confusion, but his does not have "dementia" and it is DISHONEST of you to say it, both factually and intellectually.

 

[Dragonlady]

It's the blowhard approach to reality denial.

If you can concoct no credible evidence of you fake claim, bray it loudly and hysterically, and your cult will mindlessly parrot your false claims.

It's not just the Cult that parrot these lies. The billionaire owned right wing media also faithfully parrots and reinforces these lies as well. Gotta keep the Cult voting for those tax cuts.

 

[Foxfyre]

The latest in intellectual dishonesty demonstrated by the Left:

It is being batted around that Elon Musk has proposed that Derek Chauvin should be pardoned.

The Left is accusing "President" Musk of pretending he has the power to pardon somebody. That is intellectual dishonesty.

Intellectual honesty: any citizen has the right of free speech in this country to propose anything he/she wants to propose other than deliberately inciting a riot or some such. Citizen Elon Musk, if accurately quoted, has not even hinted that he has the power to pardon anybody but is exercising his constitutional right to say that he thinks a pardon should be considered in that case.

 

[Foxfyre]

Today I'm reading on USMB that the left is accusing Trump of wanting a parade in his honor.

My response to that on another thread:
"Trump wants a Parade to commemorate the Army's 250th Anniversary--quite appropriate and proper. It would be unthinkable to not recognize that.

June 14, that anniversary, also happens to be Trump's 79th birthday. He didn't pick his birthday and he has joked about a parade in his honor on his birthday.

If he didn't commemorate that anniversary you people would probably be back to your equally dishonest mantra of "he hates/disrespects the military."

You people repeating dishonest media spin becomes increasingly nauseating. Just once a smidgeon of intellectual honesty would be so refreshing."