Myths

Related

• fake scandals
• irrelevancies: statements that are true but don't support the point they seem to be supporting

Index

• America is a Christian nation
• anchor babies nope and nope (via)
• communism is evil
• electric cars pollute more than standard cars
• gun ownership makes you safer
• hybrid cars pollute more than standard cars
• life is fair
• Nazis were socialists
• racism:
  • racism is over
  • reverse racism
  • police abuse is not racially biased
• the Democrats are more racist than the Republicans
• history:
  • Nazis were socialists nope, nope, and nope (via)
• government:
  • government cannot create jobs
  • government has a monopoly on force
  • government is the problem
  • government is the source of all political power
  • government is the source of all oppression
  • government is violence
  • government regulation stifles free markets
  • government should be eliminated
  • monopolies would not exist without government
  • the Post Office has fallen into disuse
  • the Post Office is unprofitable
  • there has never been a successful socialist state
  • there are no sustainable energy sources
  • US government
    • Social Security is bankrupt [1]
    • Obama administration (2009-2016)
      • Democrats had a supermajority for two years
      • Obama is a socialist
      • Obamacare
      • the IRS targeted conservatives
      • voter fraud is a serious problem
      • Republicans didn't protest when Obama won the election
    • Clinton administration (1993-2000)
• public policy
  • attempts to fight poverty have never worked
  • complaints about economic disparity are just greed
  • global warming predictions have failed
  • gun control doesn't work
  • hammers are more dangerous than guns (see Breitbart and Danny Killo's comment "Hammers kill more people than guns each year! Should we outlaw hammers?" here. gun stats)
  • helping people makes them dependent
  • liberal policies are bad for the economy
    • liberal policies put us more in debt
    • liberal policies destroyed Detroit
    • liberal policies ruined California
    • liberal policies will ruin California
  • markets regulate themselves
  • net neutrality means government control of information on the internet
  • raising the minimum wage hurts jobs
  • raising the minimum wage would raise prices
  • reducing access to abortion services reduces abortions
  • Republicans are better at creating jobs than Democrats
  • Social Security is a Ponzi scheme: see US/Social Security/myths
  • socialism leads to poverty
  • Taxation:
    • taxation is theft
    • taxing the rich kills jobs
    • moving into a higher tax bracket can mean you take home less
  • the federal budget should be balanced
  • unemployment is due to laziness

Too Far Out

CWRE considers the following myths to be sufficiently whacked that they are low on the priority list for refuting:

• Evolution is a lie. / The Earth is 6,000 years old. / Humans have no genetic relationship to monkeys. -- see Issuepedia
• Public assistance is like slavery. [2]
• Homosexuality is bad.
  • Glen Cauthon: "Media making it appear so "Natural" and bombarding us with homosexuality every day..in sports, in politics, in movies. They want a generation of homosexual children who will not breed. And it's even more than that. The "population explosion problem" is just a hoax. It's not even believed by those who started it. Only by the dip-sticks in Congress and people like Ted Turner, Bill Gates, Oprah "Bells In Her Fry" Winfrey and so on....and take a good look at those rich men and women."
• Global warming is about increasing government control.
  • See comment here -- "Global warming is now relabeled as climate change but it's always been about more government control. Bernie's policies of coercive energy restrictions will further drive this country into depression. Energy is what allows us to be more productive and debate over the internet instead of digging for grubs for sustenance."
• There are no morals without God.
  • Example: Frank Black's comments here (slightly edited): "moral absolutes? Under God yes, without God no. You atheists believe you have the ability to distinguish good from evil right from wrong! But you can not. God gave you the innate ability to know right from wrong. With out God's Commandments and Law's there is no difference. So all thing all permissible and no consequences for the atheist actions! So if your an Atheist then you cannot obey God's laws and Commandments! If you do then you Acknowledge that there is a God and you accept and follow his Commandments! Your comments are contradictory itself!"
• Obama is on the side of the terrorists.
  • Example: http://freethoughtblogs.com/dispatches/2015/04/19/terrorists-dont-attack-us-to-not-embarrass-obama/

Links

For future mining:

• 2016-12-18 concern troll repeats anti-trans myths
• 2016-12-13 No, Female Trans Athletes Do Not Have Unfair Advantages
• 2016-11-17 This Woman Was Told Muslims Don’t Condemn Violence, So She Made A List To Show They Do - myth: Muslims don't condemn Muslim violence
• 2016-11-10 Paul Ryan Says Medicare Privatization Is On (via)
• 11 Major Misconceptions About the Black Lives Matter Movement
• 2016-08-03 Mexico-US illegal migration has been at zero for 8 years, and other eye-opening facts
• 2016-07-08 5 arguments against gun control — and why they are all wrong
• 2016-06-22 Donald Trump Keeps Calling The U.S. The ‘Highest Taxed Nation.’ It’s Not Even Close. (via)
• 2016-05-24 Cycling Fallacies
• 2015-10-26 The post reshared here has a gold-mine of myths and misconceptions about gender and transsexuality; more here
• 2015-04-03 Ten Myths in American History
  1. Myth: The Battle of Bunker Hill, and the Revolution in general, was won by untested but brave militiamen.
  2. Myth: The Founding Fathers based their political beliefs in Christian doctrine.
  3. Myth: With the Louisiana Purchase, the United States acquired a vast tract of land for almost no cost.
  4. Myth: Christian doctrine in America always stood in opposition to moral crimes like slavery.
  5. Myth: The heroes of American history have typically been "Average Joes."
  6. Myth: Immediately after the Civil War, most white Americans were appalled by the rise of the Ku Klux Klan
  7. Myth: Cowboys were brave individualists, freed from the confines of government intervention and big business.
  8. Myth: The Medal of Honor has always been nearly impossible to come by, awarded to only the most heroic soldiers.
  9. Myth: African American service in WWI paved the way for equality in America.
  10. Myth: Those who call for change in America do not share its core values.
• 2015-02-26 The fact-checks behind 'The Daily Show's' 50 Fox news 'lies'
• 2015-02-23 Sex isn’t chromosomes: the story of a century of misconceptions about X & Y (via)
• 2014-12-06 10 Myths About Non-Binary People It's Time to Unlearn
• 2014-11-18 Myths About Transition Regrets
• 2014-08-04 Fighting Back Against Anti-Transgender Talking Points
• 2014-03-06 5 Myths About Non-Binary Transition
• 2012-12-11 How to Quickly Prove a Libertarian Wrong: 5 marketist myths about capitalism (although many marketists use #5 as an argument for capitalism)
• 2012-05-15 6 Ridiculous Lies You Believe About the Founding of America
• 2002-03 1491: myths about pre-Columbian America