My observation in discussing politics or other difficult topics online is that certain key words are always brought up, and the minute they do my B.S. detector spikes, especially when coming from someone more progressive. One of those words is "Facts". Facts: "something that has actual existence "
I'm going to borrow from Voddie Baucham and label this "Facticism"... This generally manifests itself when the presenter of the argument just inherently KNOWS the Facts. The listeners, the others, because of their situation, are incapable of knowing the facts as well as the person presenting the argument, and thus the word capital F Facts must be used to persuade all of the validity of the argument.
It is my belief that facts are self evident and the word should be confined to easily verifiable cases such as 1+1, the earth is round, and Epstein didn't kill himself. My observation is that a fact is often not defined as a Fact in a progressive's argument unless it is complete and utter bullshit and as a last resort when the issue really may not be so self-evident. Every far-left leaning op-ed piece is littered with the word.
It may be a fact that a person attending a rally saw something and believed it. It is not a fact however to guess / speculate on what the mob of protesters would do next, that is called Speculation. You may conjecture all you wish, but nobody ever needs to declare Facts when they are indeed facts.
fact: Thugs vandalized a church
fact: Trump visited the church
fact: protestors were in the way while he tried to visit
fact: riot police / park police cleared the protestors because (I conjecture) they wouldn't move or posed a risk to Trump's safety
fact: trump returned safely
fact: the white house still stands
Where were the protestors when the church was vandalized? What did they do to stop a wanton act of evil? Is nothing sacred anymore? Hypocrites!
This lunacy stops when people are ready to be adults and accept responsibility for their actions... ALL people... white's, black's, protestors, cops, the president, the media... when we stop acting like what we do doesn't impact others and we start being kind.
Freudian or did you mean it?