Benjamin Goggin, NBC News’s deputy tech editor, defended his report on Nazis receiving a “friendly reception” at the recent Conservative Political Action Conference after CPAC publicly called it “false, misleading, and grossly manipulative.”

Goggin noted in his report that CPAC has long had to deal with far-right extremists trying to infiltrate the conference, but in past years would quickly eject those with explicit ties to neo-Nazis, like Nick Fuentes.

“But this year, racist conspiracy theorists didn’t meet any perceptible resistance at the conference where Donald Trump has been the keynote speaker since 2017,” Goggin wrote…

  • DevCat@lemmy.worldOP
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    9 months ago

    than it is for them to accept the truth.

    than it is to use critical thinking skills.

    There, fixed that for you.

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      9 months ago

      How do you expect them to use something they’ve never had before, let alone something as complicated as thinking?