Quickest, most concise way to convince someone who bought the false narrative?

[91Joe95]

Serious questions.

If Fina was the PA for the Sandusky trial, what would he be doing looking for evidence of JVP's role or lack thereof in a cover up? How would that affect his case against Sandusky?

He was heavily involved in the grand jury that brought charges against c&s.

 

[bamasota]

He was heavily involved in the grand jury that brought charges against c&s.

That makes more sense, thanks for the clarification.

 

[bjf1984]

Another way to approach such a talk is to ask the person what exactly they think happened and their proof for it. When they start listing "facts" that are unproven or downright false, then you can easily correct them. When they realize that they are basing their view on the matter of false pretenses, it makes it easier to reconsider their position.

Early on, I did this with one of my cousins and he was surprised at how much he took for granted as "fact" that the media was reporting that used to based an opinion on.

This ^^

 

[ChiTownLion]

 

[AWS1022]

The scorpion and the frog story...you can't change who you are. If Joe Paterno was able to cover up child abuse for years, he would have truly had to have been an evil person. If he was a truly evil person, he would have done a lot more bad things in 61 years that would have shown his true nature. People can't even look back now and find things that point to Joe being anything other than a fine, upstanding person. Someone like that could not cover up child abuse for years...it just wasn't in his DNA.

 

[pandaczar12]

A cover up never made any sense. There would have only been positive press from helping to catch a monster, there is simply no need to cover anything up.