ALTERNATIVE FACTS!

In more recent 'news' the always honest and trustworthy media came up with a certain term or phrase regarding how facts are seen.  I am of course talking about ALTERNATIVE facts.  This was thrown around quite often a year ago during the beginning of God Emperor Trumps reign as president.  Every time I heard the phrase I got aggravated inside.  It got so bad that it boiled over at a student group meeting last spring when someone threw out a 'fact' that was proven to be false by other members of the group and his response to his incorrect 'fact' was that he had just cited an alternative fact and it still needed to find its place.  I literally told him that we could not handle his stupidity any longer. 
I am a pretty cute and dry person that enjoys science because it explains why things happen and they it is a factual practice.  So the term alternative fact appears to be an oxymoron given the term alternative in front of fact would imply the opposite of a fact! 
This type of speak is very misleading and gives people the idea that can still be correct even though they are wrong.  People need to be told they are wrong sometimes, it is a great learning experience and it humbles them.  But alternative facts gives rise to idiots who think their incorrect statements have just as much worth as a FACT.  I will admit there times when contradicting ideas are needed and should be welcomed, this class is a great example, but even then we do not call them 'alternative facts'. 
When thinking about why people use this as an argumentative point, I can only think of people that have lived their lives around that same intellectual company and have never been challenged by opposing views.  This is also personal experience coming from a small town and working with people that have never done anything else or gone anywhere outside of the same intellectual friend base.  Their arguments are often very stereotypical because they give their 'facts' that to most anyone else are obviously wrong; wrong in ways that it just takes some simple reasoning to figure out. 
While I do not believe in stifling free speech, I do think people need to be taught how about facts and humbled in a lesson when it comes to arguing with these facts.  Because for gods sake, facts are facts and they do not care about feelings.