Marx and Engels contend that ideologies are false ideas whose deficiencies are "a product of truth-distorting social forces. Noel Carroll supports this very view that ideologies are false beliefs and argues that they uphold some kind of social domination. Most of the time ideologies are related to the creation of erroneous beliefs and assertions. Statements like "All Muslims are terrorists," and "all black men want to rape white women" and many other generalizations become "factual claims" and a "propositional content" that describe a state of affairs as being true. The validity of such assertions can often "be checked by appealing to inductively acquired evidence, or by challenging the logical consistency of their premises."(Rodriguez,
