I know we all wanna move on, but I want to linger on the Kansas situation for a last moment, b/c there are a few important principles being overlooked. One is about accountability and redemption, the other how quickly we reach conclusions. A couple thoughts:
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That led to many people on here gloating that they had been right all along. But that gets us to the speed at which people reach conclusions, another important principle at play here.
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There are significant differences between this situation and Alex Morse, but there’s also a critical similarity. Consider this: I spent 5 days getting attacked for expressing skepticism of his charges, but was only vindicated because they were bogus.
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What if I had dug into the Morse allegations and found they had merit? Would I have been wrong to have expressed skepticism? Would y’all have been right to have piled on? Of course not.
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Instead, after we exposed the fraud, everybody here just quietly deleted their condemnations of Morse and the few skeptics. The entire internet had condemned him, yet if you hunt around today, you’re hard pressed to find a single person who’ll admit participating in that.
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There are hostile actors out there looking to exploit legitimate rage to rip people apart. It costs you nothing to pause, think, and ask for a bit of context and evidence before leaping to a conclusion. It took just a few days, and that’s not too much to ask to get it right.
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If he hadn't re-entered the race, would you have not reported the piece?
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Uh, no way for this dude.
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Everybody knew. You just had an agenda and didn’t care to dig.
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I’m from Kansas give me a break everyone around here knew this. You just had an agenda. You excusing his behavior of what he did in middle school. Which was only like 5 year ago by the way partially led to him staying in the race. Just go away!
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This is some real bullshit. They keep talking like it's normal "investigative journalism" to only talk to one person.
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