2 ms·

That's a horrible story, but pulling it out seems to indicate you didn't understand what the GP was trying to convey at all. The point was that to use a crime

That's a horrible story, but pulling it out seems to indicate you didn't understand what the GP was trying to convey at all. The point was that to use a crime from twenty years ago for which a person was convicted and served time for as indicative of problems with the current project he's the head of seems to indicate they could not not find anything relevant to the project itself to criticize. Doubling down on the details of that crime doesn't change that or counter the claim at all. If you want to make a claim that rehabilitation is impossible, or that he's not rehabilitated, then do so. If you want to state that it goes to the point being made in the article, that hiring felons with a violent history is common, then do so. I don't think the article is indefensible, but these additional details without context to make them relevant don't add much.

f38zf5vdt 2y ago
Yeah, for anyone else still questioning, if an article about former president Donald Trump's foreign relations with Finland during his presidency opened in the starting paragraphs with: "Donald J. Trump was found by a jury to have committed sexual abuse and forcible touching of E. Jean Carroll. By her own account, Carroll said that on her way out of the store she ran into Trump and he asked for help buying a gift for a woman. After she suggested a handbag or a hat, the two reputedly moved on to the lingerie section and joked about the other trying some on. Carroll said they ended up in a dressing room together, the door of which was shut, and Trump forcefully kissed her, pulled down her tights and raped her before she was able to escape. Trump has also stated in the past that 'You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.'" You would rightly consider this to be yellow journalism, as it has nothing to do with Trump's foreign relations with Finland despite being despicable.

f38zf5vdt 2y ago

Yeah, for anyone else still questioning, if an article about former president Donald Trump's foreign relations with Finland during his presidency opened in the starting paragraphs with: "Donald J. Trump was found by a jury to have committed sexual abuse and forcible touching of E. Jean Carroll. By her own account, Carroll said that on her way out of the store she ran into Trump and he asked for help buying a gift for a woman. After she suggested a handbag or a hat, the two reputedly moved on to the lingerie section and joked about the other trying some on. Carroll said they ended up in a dressing room together, the door of which was shut, and Trump forcefully kissed her, pulled down her tights and raped her before she was able to escape. Trump has also stated in the past that 'You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.'" You would rightly consider this to be yellow journalism, as it has nothing to do with Trump's foreign relations with Finland despite being despicable.