‘I don’t want to be pedantic, but that isn’t what happened.’
‘It was, I heard it with my own ears.’
‘Right, but factually, that isn’t what happened. Who did you hear it from?’
‘A guy I know that was there.’
‘Could he maybe have made it up, or not got the full story? Because, again, the facts are a little more complex.’
‘But loads of people on Twitter said the same thing.’
‘Right, but they could be just repeating the same incorrect information. Shouldn’t you look at it in more detail before you join in spreading falsehoods?’
‘Look, I know what happened, I don’t need you to try and tell me otherwise.’
‘I’m just asking you to look at the facts of what happened. There are plenty of other sources that paint a different picture from what your friend says.’
‘I don’t believe those sources. All those mainstream media types and the corrupt judges.’
‘But you believe your friend?’
‘Right, because he was there and saw it.’
‘You don’t think that’s a dangerous way to view the world?’
‘You really are being a pedagogue.’
‘A what?’
‘A pediatric… Whatever it was you said a minute ago.’
‘A pedant?’
‘Yeah, that.’
Written for #FOWC, hosted by Fandango Today’s prompt word was: Pedantic. Click on the link to read more responses to the prompt.
Suffering disillusionment and disappointment with some fellow bloggers from stories and comments written yesterday. A case of people making broad assumptions and sweeping statements without explaining complex facts situations or thinking beyond their own interests. I really do worry about what sort of world we are going to end up in, and that at a time when the end of Trump should be making things seem better! Anyway, it’s a little bit of therapy writing today.
Iain Kelly 
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