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Old 05-30-2018, 09:41 AM   #122
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[...] I've taken the story overall as she told it. There were no red flags to me in the cited material; I found the evidence of the girls' suffering against corporate coldness especially as manifested in outright lies and stonewalling sufficient. Again, there's the reality that sometimes a popular treatment is enough.
Isn't the danger of this sort of interpretation that the popular history becomes the de-facto truth, regardless of whether it properly reflects reality?

If a popular history presents the facts in such a way that it feeds the audiences preconceived ideas about how this sort of thing plays out, then this becomes just a process of confirming existing biases in the audience and no longer teaches the audience anything new. (cf. search bubbles on the Internet.)
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