You could call it a moment of truth, except that what actually came out of that moment was a realization of how little truth now matters.
This is back in 2010, after I recounted in this space an astonishing feat of World War I heroism — a small African-American soldier named Henry Johnson, wounded 21 times, single-handedly fighting off a company of Germans. In response, a guy named Ken shot off an angry email calling the story “PC bull.”
What struck me wasn’t so much Ken’s ignorance.