Whose truth is it anyway?

I woke up this morning with the title of this blog post pounding a drumbeat in my head and had to write it down immediately. It was born out of a need to focus on this elusive thing we call ‘truth’. In light of recent events in the United States, and closer to home personally, I felt it was time to embrace the conversation that starts something along the lines of ‘there is no such thing as truth’. Then I read Claire Montanaro’s blog post, Freedom of Expression, and she said much of what’s been roiling around in my head over the last few days. I almost decided at that point not to write this, but then realised I had a more to add what Claire was talking about. I also listened to a video on a course I’m taking at the moment and one phrase stood out for me as being true and not true at the same time. ‘The truth shall set you free’. It seems to state that knowing something to be true is freedom. What I realised in the moment I heard it for what must be the thousandth time is that it’s overused and misunderstood. ‘Truth’ demands that there is an actual perspective that is the only perspective we should all approve and support. And therein lies the problem. If you were to ask 1,000 people who support Trump what their ‘truth’ about the events of last week is, it will differ significantly from 1,000 democratic voters idea of the same events. On one hand you will have the overturning injustice and on t...
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