The Rashomon Effect seems to be in full bloom lately.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

I've been reading various accounts of the same events by Hillary and Bernie supporters. It's interesting how different those descriptions are....

[whatchamacallit]

1. True + good reference

[LiberalArkie]

2. Is it ever. It keeps making me go back and research something that happened to make

sure I remembered it correctly. DU is making it hard to be 67 and believe your memory.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

3. There are no facts, only interpretations. Friedrich Nietzsche

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

4. I'd go read the tweets put out by the actual protesters.

They're more in line with one camp than the other, and mention epithets hurled at them by the crowd, threats by the Secret Service, and tone and timing arguments pushed at them by Hillary staffers and surrogates.

(ETA: Slight correction to above - I only saw one threat from the SS mentioned. There might have been more but that should read 'a threat by' not 'threats by', to be correct.)

[Bluenorthwest]

5. Rashomon addresses divergence in remembering by eyewitnessess, DU has no such witnessess and

is just a bunch of people script writing and editorializing and in the end exploiting events lived by and actions carried out by others. Big, giant difference. Not Rashomon so much as the Telephone Hour.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

6. Good point.

But whatever you want to call, it's interesting to see how people will spin occurrences at the same event, whether witnessed or reported on, to suit their agendas.

[Bluenorthwest]

7. Rashomon was a perfectly good reference, I'm just running with it!

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