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What's odd is that you immediately try to insinuate some kind of nefarious bias because s/he didn't cite an incident that lines up with your political leanings.
by doktrin 11y ago
What's odd is that you immediately try to insinuate some kind of nefarious bias because s/he didn't cite an incident that lines up with your political leanings.
The parent is clearly in Oregon, so it's not exactly super duper weird that they mentioned a recent, relevant action in their own back yard.
- humanrebar 11y agoIt's odd that you went straight for "nefarious". I didn't actually think that at all. I assumed cognitive dissonance, actually. Mostly because everyone experiences it, myself included. I think I was mostly vindicated. We tend to assign more importance to events that are both recent and geographically close to ourselves. The events in Ferguson or the shooting at the clinic in Colorado probably had more of an affect on the collective American psyche.
- davidw 11y agoI wrote about it because you mentioned it.
- humanrebar 11y agoI didn't mention Oregon. Some GP comment mentioned eruptions and demonstrations. You picked out the Oregon one especially as being especially problematic in your mind. I was trying to point out that we are the problem because we have our usual stalking horses and have no real way to track what the biggest problems actually are. The Oregon thing is certainly newsworthy. I'm not sure it frames America's thoughts as much as the shooting in San Bernadino, say. If you feel unfairly singled out, I apologize. That's wasn't my intent.