Like more than a few people, Weijia Jiang was not familiar with Trump’s aborted video from 2012 in which he fires “Obama.” After realizing the background, she deleted a tweet about it.
Because that is how you demonstrate credibility: acknowledging errors.
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By being mentioned in her tweet, I got a reminder of how things work today.
If you admit error, you acknowledge error. If, on the other hand, you deny making an error? You can try to push every issue into a he-said-she-said battle.
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If you deny that you were wrong or that you lied or that you had an affair, people who seek to defend you can live in the gray area, however narrow.
If you admit your mistake, as you should and as you might be professionally obligated to do? You allow bad-faith critiques.
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So you can say untrue things thousands of times without admitting it and be a truth-teller. Or you can say true things thousands of times and be dismissed out of hand because of the time you admitted you were wrong.
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And yet it still gets worse.
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