SOCB50H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Malum Prohibitum, Socalled, Dakota Fanning
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Developing a type of understanding about how we look for what the truth is about something or what the facts are about something that matters. Understanding moral narratives like urban legends that can be objectively understood to a set of criteria with an understanding of how text works. Journalist who was there on 9/11 traced the story of trump claiming muslims celebrated 9/11 back to. Tracing that story back to a set of urban legends type of stories that circulated just after 9/11 that were untrue/never happened but circulated as a true story. Power of morality narratives and urban legends to keep circulating and veil the truth/authority and in some cases have some real consequences. Have to think about what impact it had at all. Expression in our particular popular culture at the moment modulates around the question on what truth is. Urban legends play a role in it but there"s no cause and effect.
