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What do you see on the left?
by throwaway5752 9y ago
What do you see on the left?
- baq 9y agoArticles appealing to emotions instead of reason.
- blackbagboys 9y agoAll effective political organizing appeals at some level to emotions. Appeals to pure reason is the domain of dusty technocrats who are content to fiddle with the knobs on a fundamentally unjust system.
- takeda 9y agoSimilar things, few minutes ago I saw post on reddit essentially saying that while students were protesting gun laws Trump was golfing and Pence posted on Twitter about a movie. This probably is true, but that post is essentially to push people's buttons.
- blackbagboys 9y agoAppealing to people’s sense of outrage is perfectly justifiable if the outragenousness is rooted in facts.
- justAnotherNET 9y agoJust the other day I heard NPR say “Asssssault Rifle with highhhh capacity magazine” (emphasis theirs) when discussing an AR-15, which is not an assault rifle, and its standard 30-round magazine. I can get most right wingers to admit they know Fox is biased towards republicans. What amazes me is how many left wingers will vehemently deny groups like NPR, NYT, Bezos Post etc are biased in their coverage to an equal or greater magnitude. They won’t blink when the paper who sold us the Iraq war WMD story runs an inflammatory headline with “sources familiar with a persons thinking” as their support.