Actual fake news is literally destroying America in my opinion

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Recently, there was an article published by the Daily Caller about how my University is paying people to "spy" on students and to report them if they are talking anything that isn't "Liberal". Of course this was spun from this newspaper. However, I looked into this and really what the position is is a role in order to report behavior that is in line with misconduct. This sort of misconduct is stuff like sexual harassment, bullying and etc. However, the right wingers then decided to attack my Universities Facebook page by calling them communists and Hitler Youth because of this. I even asked one of these angry people who had nothing to do with my University where he heard this story from. I have been at University of Arizona for over a year and have never heard of such a thing. This guy I asked [He looked like a child molester] to provide some information on this refused to. His logic was "Why should I have to". I then explained to him that when someone makes such an idiotic statement they must be able to back it up. 

Needless to say, this moron did not have any evidence. I even googled it and the only article that came up was the Daily Caller [As i stated before].

This is so funny though. Because about a month ago there was a story about my University handing out "SJW" Manuals. These manuals apparently tell people what to do when their feelings got hurt. I personally thought this was silly. However, once again I have never heard about these. Never got any information about it from my school either. And according to the articles that were published on this, it was sent to all students. Not to mention they were apparently passing them out, but again I never once saw this! 

This is a serious issue we are having in this country. People need to realize that just because something is on the internet does not mean it's true. There is saying that if you look into the sky long enough you will see a UFO. I think it applies to this same instance, but this is more of a serious matter. Is it because they want these things to be true so the fake news gives it to them? I mean, you could google the following things: "Obama is a Muslim", or "Hillary is killing people". And you will find them! 

I really never understood why some people in the world despise America so much, and after this last election cycle I completely understand those feelings now. Americans are seriously idiots.

If you think the problem is merely that the people who believe different things than you, or believe fake news, then you are missing the problem. Fake news comes in every political stripe. Only left wingers think that fake news is just a right wing problem. It even gets put on these forums from time to time. People want to believe bad things about those they disagree with. Conservatives believe there is a liberal slant to universities, they hear some real stories about colleges and then fake ones that are just a little more extreme. It's not stupidity, or if it is, people on these forums are subject to it to. Fake stories slip into these forums all the time, mostly about Trump and people believe them because they want to believe everything negative about Trump, so they don't look very deeply into it.

 It's a normal part of the human condition to be less skeptical of our own point of view. The cure for it is for people to stop reading stuff that supports their own point of view, and rather read stuff that refutes or argues against their point of view.