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This from a site that brings you such nuggets of wisdom like In the past few years, I’ve become increasingly more aware at how conservatives will simply state

This from a site that brings you such nuggets of wisdom like In the past few years, I’ve become increasingly more aware at how conservatives will simply state the facts, or praise what they appreciate, when an ideological adversary dies. In contrast, progressives and our legacy media will often write horrific hit pieces when someone on the opposite end of the spectrum passes away. No bias there at all.

adamrezich 4y ago
is the statement inaccurate?
- spacemadness 4y ago
  Oh yes, it’s an entirely objective observation. /s
- happytoexplain 4y ago
  The number of cases to examine is small enough to make it difficult to extract a trend, and the nature of the question is very subjective, but my best attempt at an observation is that the described behavior is one of the many personality/cognitive faults that people on both sides of politics exhibit in roughly equal measures. I think an observation of a strong bias in one direction here might be due to other factors (e.g. biases that affect one's exposure to these things).
airhangerf15 4y ago
You could put the entire thing in the context he framed it in: > I was living in Wellington, New Zealand when Margaret Thatcher died. Some people I knew threw a party at Hotel Bristol, a pub on Cuba Street. I knew nothing about Thatcher, but I assumed she must have been pretty bad if friends of mine were singing “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” in her wake. Today, activist still literally piss on her grave1. > Years later in Seattle, I worked with a British woman who grew up under Thatcher. She was horrified when people celebrated the death of someone who was an inspiration to many young women all over the United Kingdom. In the past few years, I’ve become increasingly more aware at how conservatives will simply state the facts, or praise what they appreciate, when an ideological adversary dies. If the author hung out with a bunch of people and observed this happening, and then later talked to a British woman who gave him a different perspective, can you at least see why that bias developed? I mean ... his friends threw a party when a prime minister they probably weren't even alive for died.

adamrezich 4y ago

is the statement inaccurate?

spacemadness 4y ago
Oh yes, it’s an entirely objective observation. /s
happytoexplain 4y ago
The number of cases to examine is small enough to make it difficult to extract a trend, and the nature of the question is very subjective, but my best attempt at an observation is that the described behavior is one of the many personality/cognitive faults that people on both sides of politics exhibit in roughly equal measures. I think an observation of a strong bias in one direction here might be due to other factors (e.g. biases that affect one's exposure to these things).

airhangerf15 4y ago

You could put the entire thing in the context he framed it in: > I was living in Wellington, New Zealand when Margaret Thatcher died. Some people I knew threw a party at Hotel Bristol, a pub on Cuba Street. I knew nothing about Thatcher, but I assumed she must have been pretty bad if friends of mine were singing “Ding Dong The Witch Is Dead” in her wake. Today, activist still literally piss on her grave1. > Years later in Seattle, I worked with a British woman who grew up under Thatcher. She was horrified when people celebrated the death of someone who was an inspiration to many young women all over the United Kingdom. In the past few years, I’ve become increasingly more aware at how conservatives will simply state the facts, or praise what they appreciate, when an ideological adversary dies. If the author hung out with a bunch of people and observed this happening, and then later talked to a British woman who gave him a different perspective, can you at least see why that bias developed? I mean ... his friends threw a party when a prime minister they probably weren't even alive for died.