Fan Death: It's hard to unlearn comfortable lies

[topaznebula]

"Fan death is a widely held belief in Korean culture, where it is thought that running an electric fan in a closed room with unopened or no windows will prove fatal. Despite no concrete evidence to support the concept, belief in fan death persists to this day in Korea." -WikipediaIf something is clearly a lie, why does the belief persist? Because

Comments

[static_abyss]

I see absolutely no lies in this entry. You are right and you should say it.

[adoptedwriter]

Agreed!

[minikin]

"Nazis weren't the only ones putting people in concentration camps during World War 2."

no, but they were the only ones building gas chambers that looked like showers and great oven to burn the bodies.

And Stalin killed even more in his Gulag.

Yes, America has behaved badly; Native Americans received the worst of the killings, and minorities still get the short end of the stick. But I'm not aware of our actually killing the Japanese, German & Italian American citizens that we rounded up. Did we?

[topaznebula]

No, America didn’t use gas chambers on the Japanese people in concentration camps during WW2, but we did round up thousands of people based on their race alone, and imprisoned them without them knowing when, if ever, they would be freed. The consequences of that were devastating: loss of property, businesses, community, wealth... emotional and mental health repercussions, etc

[minikin]

Thanks for the information.

[kittenboo]

Well said!

[tonithegreat]

There are indeed way too many comfortable lies that people are glad to accept because the truth is indeed uncomfortable.