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>We already have a sizeable population of bleach-drinkers in the US, and he just encouraged them to mainline it Discussing potential treatments with, as he sai
by twomoretime 6y ago
>We already have a sizeable population of bleach-drinkers in the US, and he just encouraged them to mainline it
Discussing potential treatments with, as he said, "medical personnel", is nowhere near advising people to drink bleach.
The fact that a person would ingest a known and clearly dangerous chemical simply because Trump said the word disinfectant is a reflection on the individual, not a valid reason to censor the president. If people are ignorant enough to go from "president mentions potential treatment" to "I must inject myself with bleach" then, frankly, the heard needs to be culled. Arguably the way we've coddled such people for decades is part of the reason we're in this sorry state, but that's another discussion. In any case the number of people who actually go on to do such a thing will be negligible if not zero. This is pure sensationalism.
You speak of misinformation but you are consuming the very same, only oblivious to it because of your bias. How often do people actually look at the primary source, i.e. the interview? Because by the time anything is filtered through the media it is nearly always exaggerated and misreported. Even this example - the guy is rambling like an obvious idiot, that's clear and more than enough to report on. But then we go and have the media holding him liable for the poor choices of others, for discussing a potentially medical treatment? This happens literally every time he talks.
We're way past the point of justifying faith in any of our popular media.
- klyrs 6y agoI literally watched the interview and never said a thing about censorship. Check your own biases.
- twomoretime 6y agoI'm speaking collectively to all the people saying that Trump shouldn't have discussed the topic at all. I.E. censorship.