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Ryan Walters Accidentally Screens Retro Nudie Flick for State School Board Members... (thelostogle.com)

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For context, Walters a couple of years ago was leading a witch hunt against school libraries, claiming that they were filled with pornography.

This also comes out the same day Oklahoma was declared 50th in education.

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[–] thisbenzingring@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 1 day ago

I feel like modern journalists really need to focus on the main logical fallacies and dissect these quotes pointing out how powerful they are at misinformation. People use fallacies offensively like this because it's effective.