Restaurant owner blames liberal, LGBTQ critics for losing investors

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(07-09-2019, 05:04 PM)bfine32 Wrote: Something that furnishes truth. 

You're close.  The definition of evidence is "the available body of facts or information indicating whether a belief or proposition is true or valid."

Having evidence of something does not mean that that something is true. It is an indication that a belief is valid.

I can have some evidence that you were at someone's house the night they were murdered. Whether that be witness accounts, victim accounts (not in the case of murder, of course, but of some other crime), fingerprints or something of the sort. This can be used as evidence for trying you for murder. But it doesn't, in and of itself, mean that you murdered that person. 

Just like with the MAGA hat. Wearing it is not empirical proof that someone is a racist. But it is evidence that they may be. Supporting someone who is suspected of (putting it lightly here, for the benefit of the doubt) racism and sexism often leads people to believe you may be racist or sexist. It is evidence. You can make an argument about whether or not that hat should be considered evidence, I suppose (though it'd be a relatively difficult argument to make). But you can't claim that there is 0 supporting evidence in these cases.