- Joined
- Jan 17, 2018
Do habitual liars start with lying to themselves? Do they think if they lie enough reality will warp around them to accommodate them?
The thing is, they don't think they're lying. There will be a couple of knowing liars in there, but nearly all the rest of them will have just made assumptions and cognitive leaps to make them think they're right.
People can point out they have no real proof, but to them, there's all the rumours and women have come forward and that's enough. They think there's smoking guns, that there is evidence, and that it's all out there to see. It's not even that they necessarily think the evidence already out there is enough - they likely believe that there's solid video and audio evidence that exists that shows Vic undeniably assaulting women and girls. As we saw with Covington, people will read into things what they want to see, and will take stories as truth, and make assumptions and see things that aren't there.
It's a common enough thing - everyone does it. But people in bubbles are especially prone to it, because they feed off each other, so rumours and speculation becomes fact, and anything to the contrary gets dismissed as being bad faith, or from trolls, or just from The Enemy. And in SJW Listen and Believe circles, it gets even worse, because anything about assault becomes instantly true, and any actions from the women involved - reporting it, not reporting it, avoiding the alleged perpetrator, being friendly with them, not having any details, not having any evidence - all gets described as part of how victims process. Which also means challenging any part of the story means you're not Listen and Believing, which makes you part of the problem, and usually just as bad as the perpetrator.
In this case they're being particularly bad and blatantly wrong, like with how they think Nick's not a lawyer, or he's breaking lawyer rules by his conduct. But to them, women have come forward and said bad things about Vic, and there's apparently several videos demonstrating that. They don't watch the videos, they don't believe the first one from meepy girl was edited, they just think that there's proof. So they're dumb, and incurious, and caught up in a self-reinforcing bubble ... but most of them don't think they're lying.
And why would they need to lie? They're right, and being a SJW means never, ever being wrong.