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> How can you be angry at Walmart if you’ve never shopped in one? > --How can I be against the use of nuclear weapons if I have never survived one? The answer

> How can you be angry at Walmart if you’ve never shopped in one? > --How can I be against the use of nuclear weapons if I have never survived one? The answer is called education, research and data. Surprisingly, you can learn things and form opinions without having to experience the thing you are researching. You go for the absurd from the quotes on a jacket meant to sell books. Whose opinion and research are you getting? The people she is talking about are the ones writing up that research and opinion. Someone actually needs to directly observe. > How can you hate the police if you’ve never needed help from a cop? --- I think she's trying to say "How can white 'elites' on the coast hate the police if they don't need them". Which of course, more logical fallacies. Talking about police corruption and wanting to do something about it is of course is the same thing as hating them, right? Right? Nope, that's not what she's saying and I would direct you to read the actual book, not the cover blurbs. > How can you attack Christians if you don’t have a single friend who goes to church? -- How can you attack Muslims if you don't have a single friend who goes to mosque? Oh wait. She probably wouldn't want that question turned around on her. Also, who's attacking Christians? 70% of the country is Christian. What is she afraid of? Is this is a war on Christmas thing? Manufactured outrage created by media companies to get ratings. Nope, that's not what she's saying and I would direct you to read the actual book, not the cover blurbs. Whose attacking Christians? She gives specific cases in the book. > If you aren't willing to step up to the table with rational, well reasoned arguments that improve the country as a whole why should people bother to listen? Asking how can they judge walmart if they haven't been in one? It'd be laughable if people didn't take it seriously. This pretty much is the sum of things. Answer everything with hyperbole and dismissal so you don't have to take a look at other people's point of view.

conception 10y ago
So, I'll grant you that the book may not be saying those things. But if that's how its being presented, and the author approved that representation, why would one bother to pick it up and give it a try?
- protomyth 10y ago
  I think a person not trying to call the author a racist or disparage the topic would find the description par for the course in that category of book regardless of author or ideology. Publishers do know how to sell books. I think a person who goes into the book with a must-find-fault attitude wouldn't gain anything from the experience, just as for any other book. As to why? I don't know how much control she has over that, not that I disagree with it in the first place. I know from a couple of author friends on the bottom rungs of the ladder that blurb and cover are very often not approved by the author. If you routinely judge books like that then you might instead want to read the first chapter or listen to the audio sample.

conception 10y ago

So, I'll grant you that the book may not be saying those things. But if that's how its being presented, and the author approved that representation, why would one bother to pick it up and give it a try?

protomyth 10y ago
I think a person not trying to call the author a racist or disparage the topic would find the description par for the course in that category of book regardless of author or ideology. Publishers do know how to sell books. I think a person who goes into the book with a must-find-fault attitude wouldn't gain anything from the experience, just as for any other book. As to why? I don't know how much control she has over that, not that I disagree with it in the first place. I know from a couple of author friends on the bottom rungs of the ladder that blurb and cover are very often not approved by the author. If you routinely judge books like that then you might instead want to read the first chapter or listen to the audio sample.