# Sandra Bland video **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [July 22, 2015, 5:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandra-bland-video/725859 "2015-07-22T05:50:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 1474
**Author:** ![Frylock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ce7236/32.png) [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2015, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandra-bland-video/725859/1474 "2015-07-29T19:44:56Z")
> [@Steophan](#): > > I’m not saying that “what X says” should be given the benefit of the doubt. X himself must be given the benefit of the doubt. Nothing to do with what he says or doesn’t. Yeah no. That’s not true. You are not telling the truth about what you yourself are saying. You were speaking about whether to accept testimony as true. In other words, you were talking about “what X says” for a certain X. Look man, it took you a bit of time to come up with that response, so I know you spent some time going back and forth between my quotations of what you said and what I said you said. In your brain was this slow dawning realization that you had fucked up. I know how this goes. It has happened to me on several occasions in the past. But then you quashed that realization, instead pouncing on a point of phrasing in order to be able save face by pretending the particular phrasing had any real implications for the substantive point. This is definitely a dishonest thing to do. But again, I’ve been there as well. I know how this goes, and I know that, in a certain state of mind, it doesn’t _feel_ dishonest. Over time I got to develop an instinct for knowing when I was bullshitting myself. Nobody can do this perfectly, but with careful attention you can learn to see it for yourself. I wish you good luck in the future on this point. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sandra-bland-video/725859)._