{"id":3898,"date":"2015-07-13T20:10:07","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T03:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coolkarma.com\/dharma\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2015-07-13T20:12:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T03:12:20","slug":"isavvy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.karmabytes.net\/?p=3898","title":{"rendered":"iSavvy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"KnowingTruth\"<\/a>While it may be true that Truth is as elusive as a Zen Koan, the Internet makes revisionist history so easy to spin doctor that it is a small wonder why so many people have stopped seeking.\u00a0 If its on Facebook it must be true.\u00a0 If its written as a striking jpg image it resonates as bonafide.\u00a0 If it “looks” like a NEWS article .. well then by golly it must be authentic.\u00a0 Because after all .. its NEWS and no one lies to us in the press.\u00a0 Reporters stand for justice.\u00a0 Its the politicians we need to be afraid of.\u00a0 Well wait no .. its the OPPOSING PARTY’s\u00a0 politicians we need to fear .. because FOX NEWS tells us so.\u00a0 And NEWS that broadcasts during prime time .. has to be legitimate.\u00a0 Right?<\/p>\n

In the post racially motivated mass shooting at a\u00a0Charleston Church <\/a>\u00a0our attention — media manipulation — has been drawn to single out the confederate flag as the scape goat for modern day racism.\u00a0 I say scapegoat.. not because it is not a perfect example of modern racism, because it is and it needs to go away, but rather because it is only the tip of the iceberg when we look at the longer now since Trayvon Martin’s murder in 2012<\/a> and the plea that Black Lives Matter<\/a>.\u00a0 I dare say that if it was NOT for the battle over the Dixie Flag that presses on we might as a selective-amnesia-nation dismiss the massacre at Mother Emanuel as a random act of violence and not a litmus test of our racial disease.<\/p>\n

What causes me to stand on my soap box, weak in the knees as it may be from standing at all, is the amount of misinformation or “partial” truths … which I prefer to call them as they are … Lies of Omission (LOO).\u00a0 We cringe at the thought of moving monuments (and the caskets there under) until we learn the general happened to be the Klan’s first grande wizard.\u00a0 Lest I indulge myself in the LOO, some accounts do indicate that the general may have changed his mind and renounced the Klan in the last years of his life.
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\nBut the media knows how to bait our attention and toy with our sympathies.\u00a0 For instance if we say … Sons of Confederate Veterans<\/a> which have been in existence since 1896 … how could we take away the flag from their hundred+ year history …. until we dig a bit deeper and realize that the organization was not involved with issue-centric concerns and “fight[ing] for the right to display Confederate symbols everywhere from schools to statehouses” until there was “new leadership” in 1990.<\/p>\n

But these are just the headlines of the day. \u00a0We are entering the 58th presidential election race and with it there will be even more LOO to look for.\u00a0 So how do we know which tidbits to trust?\u00a0 How do we find reliable sources on the internet?\u00a0 Patricia Hobbs taught her middle school students to look for Author, Dates, Purpose, Sources and Professionalism.\u00a0 Ask yourself who wrote this?\u00a0 Did they have a personal bias?\u00a0 Do they use words charged with emotion or do they seem impartial and present different sides of an issue?\u00a0 In 2014 The Business Insider <\/a>reviewed the data from a Pew Study on the most and least trusted news sources. \u00a0\"\" The chart shows various ideology groups and how trustworthy they ranked various news sources.\u00a0 It would seem no matter who you are, The Wallstreet Journal was seen as a trustworthy site by most.<\/p>\n

It may sound like a daunting task to fact check, but really it doesn’t take more than a few extra google searches to dig a bit deeper and find the out the truth.\u00a0 But be warned … Knowing the Truth may cause you to change your mind.\u00a0 Are you willing to give up long standing beliefs if they were based on misinformation?\u00a0 If you realize you were a pawn in someone else’s subversive agenda?\u00a0 Are you willing to stand up and go back and tell your kids that … you were wrong?\u00a0 I know one southern man who did just that recently.\u00a0 He was a long proponent of the stars and bars and talked the talk of heritage not hate.\u00a0 But when he did some research<\/a> and learned the facts<\/a> and followed the chronology and the coincidence of its resurrection during the civil rights movement<\/a> … he realized that things needed to change and as a proud man of southern grace he admitted he was wrong.<\/p>\n

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