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There are relatively few people in America who don't listen to music, and almost zero black people who don't listen to music. I'm sure whatever is on his "favor
by spoonjim 4y ago
There are relatively few people in America who don't listen to music, and almost zero black people who don't listen to music. I'm sure whatever is on his "favorites" list is a political calculation, but the idea that he doesn't enjoy music is an extraordinary claim that would need extraordinary evidence.
- JadoJodo 4y ago> the idea that he doesn't enjoy music is an extraordinary claim that would need extraordinary evidence. If that were what was being claimed, sure…
- krisoft 4y agoIt was kind of. There are two claims: “it's hard to imagine most US presidents deriving joy from music” followed by a specific assertion that Obama doesn’t listen to the playlists they publish. This at least implies that the speaker counts Obama among those presidents who they can’t imagine deriving joy from music. Now of course you can say that saying “hard to imagine X” doesn’t mean that “not X” is claimed. Maybe the speaker wants to express that they have aphantasia! If that is your read so be it. Doesn’t sound sensible to me. How did you interpret Adraghast’s comment?
- JadoJodo 4y agoI apologize; I missed the first part of the claim (was admittedly skimming as I was on mobile) and only saw the bit about the playlists. My apologies!
- School-Cotton 4y agoI don’t think I have ever met or even heard of anyone who doesn’t listen to music, black or not.
- Retric 4y agoFor what it’s worth, I don’t listen to music.
- inopinatus 4y agoEmpirically, you must've done, in order to know what music sounds like.