On Friday, September 7, 2018, Victor Okafor <vokafor@emich.edu> wrote:
Friends:
Is it possible that the real author of the Op-Ed does not work within President Trump's administration and that the essay, ahead of the upcoming US midterm elections, is a made-up story--a political fiction designed to both cause a disequilibrium within that administration and deepen mass disaffection with this presidency? In this age of higher frequencies of fake news within both the social and traditional media, anything is possible. Fake news, more commonly known as gossip, has always been part of the human experience across human cultures, but emergent social media, which have diminished the role of gate-keepers in traditional news media, have exacerbated that phenomenon.
If this Op-Ed turns out to be fake, would that be a first time that a newspaper, anywhere, has published a material that's entirely made-up? Of course, no. I am not a fan of anonymously authored materials. In general, anonymously authored materials are suspect and they must be regarded with a grain of salt.
Human gullibility, which predisposes us to believe the worst about fellow human beings that we dislike, may also be at play here.
In the context of US politics, I am a quintessential Independent, and so, sometimes, I am able to look at political currents from a non-partisan perspective.
--On Fri, Sep 7, 2018 at 4:32 AM, Chidi Anthony Opara, FIIM <chidi.opara@gmail.com> wrote:What if there is no "writer"(that is someone from Trump's cabinet)? Is that perspective impossible?
CAO.
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--Sincerely,Victor O. Okafor, Ph.D.Professor and HeadDepartment of Africology and African American StudiesEastern Michigan UniversityEmail: vokafor@emich.eduTel: 734.487.9594
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