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I am not sure what kind of word game are we playing here, but let me make it simple: 1) journalists are important to free press 2) free press is important to
by temp8964 6y ago
I am not sure what kind of word game are we playing here, but let me make it simple:
1) journalists are important to free press
2) free press is important to democracy
3) democracy is important to America
because of 1->2->3, journalists make America what it is.
Do you understand by this logic, basically any profession can fit "xxx make America what it is". At least "programmers make America what it is" is certainly true.
- tablespoon 6y ago> Do you understand by this logic, basically any profession can fit "xxx make America what it is". At least "programmers make America what it is" is certainly true. The error you're making is treating all kinds of "important" as equivalent. Your 3) should be something more like "democracy is an important part of American identity." Programming may be important to America today, but it's not really part of its identity.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoBy that logic, many things make America what it is. Journalists, but also truck drivers and the automobile and the electric grid and...
- temp8964 6y agoBut I guess truck drivers won't be so arrogant to make that kind of statement for themselves.
- the_only_law 6y agoThis is just blue collar romanticism. Of course they do. I know people who ran a whole joke around the concept.