line. so to confirm what you re saying, you re seeing a direct line between the post-truth message that trump has sent out for the last four years and what is happening with vaccines. you have a group of americans, something like 20%, 25%, maybe 30%, who despite overwhelming scientific evidence, despite overwhelming scientific expertise, weighing in, telling them, pleading with them to get the vaccine, who simply won t get a vaccine. so they are denying themselves the treatment, the cure against a deadly disease that has killed 600,000 people, almost twice as many americans as died in world war ii. they re denying themselves the cure for that because they have come to believe the series of falsehoods, lies, myths, conspiracy theories. so it s a pretty powerful belief system that makes you do things that are actually going to harm your own health.
The Contours of India s Post-Truth State
If we must put a finger on a period when post-Truth politics became the dominant form, it would be the election season of 2014 in India.
A Thank You Modi poster in central Delhi, celebrating the Union government s free vaccination drive. Photo: Sangeeta Barooah Pisharoty
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When we talk of a âpost-Truthâ age, we must start by identifying a particular date or period when Truth died. Is that different from saying âpost-Nehruâ India, because he is a person with name and form, unlike Truth? We know the date of Nehru’s death and we can put him in a timeframe. Can we put âTruthâ in a similar time period and social context? Probably yes; a cursory look at the social discourse and mores of a period do indicate the norms and values that guide the times.
world war ii, where the civil rights battles were fought. what s the explanation on that one? there was no loc to have a decision of emancipation proclamation. abe lincoln made that decision on his own. again, congress didn t decide to issue this famous proclamation. some errors could be it s fair, small slips, right? maybe in the heat of the moment. maybe it s lack of experience. but as you look at this, as it adds up, i mean, we would be ignoring the fact that we are nin this post-truth era. this is a congressman with an extensive history of false claims. some little slips like this, some serious stuff about his own past that washington post and others have demonstrated to be
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