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> That doesn't mean they were brainwashed by Facebook, that they're all white supremacists, etc. At the risk of engaging in a debate I don’t want to participat
by heartbreak 9y ago
> That doesn't mean they were brainwashed by Facebook, that they're all white supremacists, etc.
At the risk of engaging in a debate I don’t want to participate in, is this not building a strawman?
When I purchase a product after viewing a targeted advertisement for that product, no reasonable person would claim I’d been brainwashed. One might, however, claim I’d been influenced by the advertisement.
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- nilkn 9y agoThis should probably be a response to fareesh's top-level post. My comment was just to say that Trump's margin of victory -- however you want to analyze it or state it -- doesn't have any bearing on what motivated Trump voters and isn't even relevant in the context of fareesh's comment.