Tony watches a 9/11 Truther hand out leaflets and reflects on conspiracy theorists. He notes that they look for hidden truths behind major events like 9/11 and believe the government allowed the attacks to happen or planted explosives in the towers. However, their theories often go further by implicating banks, corporations or Jews in even larger conspiracies. Tony used to believe such theories but now tries to think more rationally, though he acknowledges it can give some a sense of purpose. He is wary of making new friends who may also be susceptible to conspiratorial thinking.
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Leonard Pitts, Don't Confuse Them with the Facts
Don’t Confuse Them with the Facts
By Leonard Pitts
February 21, 2010
I got an e-mail the other day that depressed me.
It concerned a piece I recently did that mentioned Henry Johnson, who was awarded the French Croix de Guerre in World War I for single-handedly fighting off a company of Germans (some accounts say there were 14, some say almost 30, the ones I find most authoritative say there were about two dozen) who threatened to overrun his post.
Johnson managed this despite the fact that he was only 5-foot-4 and 130 pounds, despite the fact that his gun had jammed, despite the fact that he was wounded 21 times.
My mention of Johnson’s heroics drew a rebuke from a fellow named Ken Thompson, which I quote verbatim and in its entirety:
“Hate to tell you that blacks were not allowed into combat intell (sic) 1947, that fact. World War II ended in 1945. So all that feel good, one black man killing two dozen Nazi, is just that, PC bull.”
In response, my assistant, Judi Smith, sent Mr. Thompson proof of Johnson’s heroics: a link to his page on the Web site of Arlington National Cemetery. She thought this settled the matter.
Thompson’s reply? “There is no race on headstones and they didn’t come up with the story in tell (sic) 2002.”
Judi: “I guess you can choose to believe Arlington National Cemetery or not.”
Thompson: “It is what it is, you don’t believe either … “
At this point, Judi forwarded me their correspondence, along with a despairing note. She is probably somewhere drinking right now.
You see, like me, she can remember a time when facts settled arguments. This is back before everything became a partisan shouting match, back before it was permissible to ignore or deride as “biased” anything that didn’t support your worldview.
If you and I had an argument and I produced facts from an authoritative source to back me up, you couldn’t just blow that off. You might try to undermine my facts, might counter with facts of your own, but you couldn’t just pretend my facts had no weight or meaning.
But that’s the intellectual state of the union these days, as evidenced by all the people who still don’t believe the president was born in Hawaii or that the planet is warming. And by Mr. Thompson, who doesn’t believe Henry Johnson did what he did.
I could send him more proof, I suppose. Johnson is lauded in history books (“Before the Mayflower” by Lerone Bennett Jr., “The Dictionary of American Negro Biography” by Rayford Logan and Michael Winston) and in contemporaneous accounts (The Saturday Evening Post, The New York Times). I could also point out that blacks have fought in every war in American history, though before Harry Truman desegregated the military in 1948, t.
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2. EXT. SIDEWALK - DAY
TONY, alienated youth wearing an American chauvinist T-shirt,
watches a 9/11 Truther hand out leaflets.
TONY
(Indicates Truther)
See that guy Alex Jonesing it over
there?
(Nodding)
Yeah him.
He crosses the street.
TONY (CONT’D)
There’s many just like him. Here
in town and all over the world.
Looking, wanting to uncover the
truth behind the biggest conspiracy
of all.
Points to the Freedom Tower.
TONY (CONT’D)
Like that for starters. It be
easier to believe the government
knew it was coming and allowed it
happen. But that would be too
easy, really dull actually. Not
awesomely sinister enough so
instead they had to smuggle
explosives inside the towers, set
off a controlled explosion and add
in those hijacked planes most of
them believe. Mind you the
government is just front for the
real conspirators.
He walks past a bank.
TONY (CONT’D)
Like these banks and corporations
up and down Wall street out to
enslave the world through loans,
foreign aid and debt. Inhibiting,
stagnating advancement of third
world people just to get cheap raw
materials for the real world. But
then again they’re just another
front for the real conspirators the
ultimate power behind them all.
He passes through group of Jewish Men.
3. TONY (CONT’D)
Jews.
(Snorts)
That favorite scapegoat for all the
world’s problems real and imagined.
Just repackaged racist bullshit
made new all over again.
(Thumbing)
That kid back there may not believe
it or even want too. But he’s an
unwittingly part of a conspiracy to
maintain a conspiracy. One that
instigates people to suspect and
fear enemies where none exist.
Worse get a lot people labeled and
killed that’s how the holocaust got
started. A failed artist turned
elected tyrant updated an old
stereotype into a sinister
parasitic evil out to take over the
world and the worst part he
actually thought it was for real.
He pushes the button for the crosswalk.
TONY (CONT’D)
I should know I was just like him.
The light turns green and walks.
TONY (CONT’D)
But not anymore. Now I’m part of
the conspiracy because I chose to
be rational in my thinking rather
than jump to a conclusion to any
false version of the truth.
Everybody’s got their version of
the truth that conflicts with the
truth. Even when proven wrong
beyond a shadow of the doubt they
deny it. They have too it’s a
conviction now deeply embedded in
their subconscious mind motivating
you to find purpose to a
meaningless life even if it is
based on a lie you want to be true.
(Sighs)
I’m less paranoid these days but
now I’ve gotta’ make new friends.
I’m not looking forward to this
because they’re just as likely to
be suspectable to fear mongering as
anyone else.
2.
(MORE)
4. That’s humans for ya.’ They all
got opinions you can argue with
while a conviction is best shot.
He walks on.
TONY (CONT’D)
Only thing you can do about lying
fuckin’ assholes.
END.
3.
TONY (CONT’D)
