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Originally Posted by AnotherCat
With your making that claim I am left wondering whether you do not care about the truth or whether you do not know what the truth actually is.
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You can't infer either of those from what I wrote. It's pretty simple. If someone forwards a spurious quote, you can't infer that they don't care about the truth. People believed the claims about George Washington and the Cherry Tree for ages, but that doesn't mean they didn't care about the truth. You can assert they don't care about the truth, but say-so isn't evidence.
Note that I am not *defending* spreading spurious quotes. I am merely saying that disseminating spurious quotes doesn't mean they don't care about the truth.
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Originally Posted by Catlady
Ivanka Trump's minions posted a quote from Hillel the Elder and attributed it to Emma Watson.
If you care about the truth, you look it up.
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If you're making a political speech, it's a good idea to use extra care in in your quotes. In common use, people aren't going to look up all their quotes, and even if they do look them up, you often find spurious quotes when you attempt to look them up.
Sometimes it matters who said it. Quite often it doesn't.