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>How do you feel to find yourself as the subject of such rhetoric I'm the son of immigrants and if anyone implied that most of the immigrants from my third wor
by twomoretime 6y ago
>How do you feel to find yourself as the subject of such rhetoric
I'm the son of immigrants and if anyone implied that most of the immigrants from my third world country of origin were, let's say, underachievers, I wouldn't have any problem with it, because this hypersensitivity to anything remotely critical of people from other nations or cultures is an inane western cultural norm. I assure you that liberal white people are far more offended on anyone's behalf than actual minorities.
>How do you feel to find yourself as the subject of such rhetoric? I'm guessing, not very good. You're probably feeling something along the lines of 'what did I do to you, I'm just living my life and you come along and start saying these things about me.'
This is absolutely childish reasoning. What Trump says about the general state of immigrants coming from my country of origin does not reflect on me personally.
Moreover, what he's saying is objectively true, in that the people crossing the border illegally are not exactly doctors and scientists with post graduate degrees. They are mostly a burden on our infrastructure and all that about how they contribute more than they take is absolute hogwash...but that's another discussion.
>What he's 'fighting back' against appears to the plain reports of his own behavior.
>I formed my negative opinion of Trump's remarks at his press conference yesterday based upon listening to them on the White house's youtube channel.
Do you honestly think it's reasonable that some 95% of headlines about Trump are negative? Do you truly believe that every single thing he does is negative? I challenge you to find a single positive headline from CNN or MSNBC or the like from the last few years that isn't an editorial.
>Seems like you might be experiencing a little cognitive bias of your own.
My cognitive bias is that statistically for Trump to make the wrong call as often as the media claims he does, he'd have to do so deliberately. As in it would take effort and skill to be wrong this often.
>What hatred
Please. You want to pretend people online aren't rabidly against Trump? Even this latest gaffe, coverage of which is exclusively negative, could trivially be interpreted as listening and deferring to suggestions from experts. But you won't find that valid take on "reputable" media.
- anigbrowl 6y agoMy own experience is substantially at odds with yours, but perhaps your attitude magically protects you from bias, assuming you get the chance to pre-empt it. That's an elegant sidestep from suggesting I'm biased by media framing to being biased by simply being online. Go on complaining about the media though.
- wideasleep1 6y ago"I assure you that liberal white people are far more offended on anyone's behalf than actual minorities." Sometimes, one upvote is never enough.