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But it ends up being circular. Most of us knew nothing about him before that anecdote so the reason that we think "he's the kind of odious frat bro who would probably do that and talk about about it to his bros" is the existence of the anecdote itself.
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it ends up being circular
It's not circular, just replace "reminds us" in my post with "informs us" if you weren't paying attention before. If you saw the "alternative fact" from an initial position of innocence, you might try to find out why it had such traction, and you'd discover the disgusting truth about what kind of person Vance is.
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We only know that it's literally not true that he described such an event in "Hillbilly Elegy". The fact that we don't immediately conclude that it definitely didn't happen reminds us that he's the kind of odious frat bro who would probably do that and talk about about it to his bros.