I must admit, these tactics worked. When someone tells you you’re stupid for believing a certain narrative, your first instinct is to do anything not to appear stupid. And it seemed futile to put up a fight, because the conversation would never end: • If the translation was correct, it was being “misinterpreted”—but there was no explanation as to what the correct interpretation was. • If the interpretation was plausible, it was “specific to that time” or simply “out of context”—again, with no explanation as to the correct context. • If it was all-out false or wrong, it
