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Headline: we're so polarized! How awful wrings hands Body: Republicans are bad Republicans are bad Republicans are bad Republicans are bad Republicans are bad
by civilized 6y ago
Headline: we're so polarized! How awful wrings hands
Body: Republicans are bad Republicans are bad Republicans are bad Republicans are bad Republicans are bad Republicans are bad
I don't even have a problem with a certain amount of contempt for Republicans, or at least their politicians. It's just, if you pretend to be concerned about polarization in the abstract, you might try harder to pretend to be concerned about the ways in which both sides contribute to it. If you only know about the specific ways in which conservatives or Republicans are bad, or "more bad", you're unable to overcome your partisanship in a search for the whole truth.
If you want to learn about how the left contributes to polarization, you can start by having a look at Matt Taibbi's or Jesse Singal's Substack.
- scrollaway 6y agoThe word "republican" appears 6 times in the article. The word "democrat" 10.
- civilized 6y agoDid you read the article, or just count the word mentions?
- scrollaway 6y agoBoth, but maybe unlike you I didn't get stuck only on the parts that criticized republicans.
- civilized 6y agoIf you actually read the article, why would you choose an irrelevant metric that is basically uncorrelated with the actual content of the article to prove your point?
- scrollaway 6y agoVery easy way to disprove your frankly very low effort post. You have since edited it to be a bit more substantive but when I replied it was reddit grade.
- civilized 6y agoI guess it'd be a disproof if my original claim was about the number of times "Republican" and "Democrat" were mentioned in the article. I'll give you that! I will definitely root for your side in any dispute that involves the number of words in an article. You may well be the world's expert there!