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> The point is that people are not obligated, period. People? Period? If you truly don't think journalists and political leaders, among others, have a responsi
by jrochkind1 4y ago
> The point is that people are not obligated, period.
People? Period? If you truly don't think journalists and political leaders, among others, have a responsibility to behave responsibly with the truth and their methods, and that people are right to expect that of them and evaluate them on it...
Then I guess we have enough of a different worldview that communication is indeed difficult.
I'm not sure what makes something a culture war to you. I am a leftist critisizing both Joe Rogan and Jon Stewart. My problem with Jon Stewart is not with his politics, which I largely agree with. To me, a culture war approach is more thinking that you must pick a side and then insist those on the other side are without virtue and those on yours without flaw -- I am also not interested in that.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoYou've changed your stance here, before it was that someone is obligated if people believed something about them, now it's that they're obligated if they call themselves a certain thing. One almost begins to suspect this is all a front for disliking Jon Stewart ;) You have a good day.
- jrochkind1 4y agoI do not in fact dislike Jon Stewart. I don't know him personally, but I am capable of critiquing people I also think have done positive things, which I think he has. It is unclear to me if you are -- that's the culture war, indeed, thinking that everyone must be either all bad or all good. I do not believe I have changed my stance at all, this is something i have spent some time thinking about and have a thing I think about it. But ok.
- P5fRxh5kUvp2th 4y agoThe worst are the ones who believe themselves to be objective as you'll never get them to consider that they have a bias. It's like the people who claim to hate drama but are always surrounded by it. And of course you've thought about Jon Stewart a lot, that's obvious.