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Why do you think Al Gore caused the polarization of climate change and not that the polarization of Climate Change caused Al Gore to be a more polarizing figure
by JamesBarney 9y ago
Why do you think Al Gore caused the polarization of climate change and not that the polarization of Climate Change caused Al Gore to be a more polarizing figure?
Except for being a climate change activist he is a pretty bland public figure. It's not like he's Ann Coulter or Michael Moore.
- eregorn 9y agoHe still gets a lot of flak from that "invented the internet" comment. Probably one of the few comments in politics that makes critics of it even more angry if they don't take it literally.
- dragonwriter 9y ago> He still gets a lot of flak from that "invented the internet" comment. He never claimed to have invented the internet. He did claim to have taken the initiative in creating it in the context of a broader claim about taking the initiative to advance various important economic, environmental, and educational advances through policy and legislation. http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
- eregorn 9y agoWell yeh, that's what I was getting at hence the "don't take it literally" part. I've seen people still don't like what he said even after knowing it was not literal. Some people just don't want to see the internet as something not only invented by the government, but was not the total wild west they romanticized it as.
- excitom 9y agoIsn't it interesting that such a minor (and misconstrued) comment could have such a lasting effect on the man's career while the guy now in power spews far more outrageous falsehoods daily and it just doesn't seem to matter.
- yahna 9y ago"binders full of women" used to be unacceptable.