Just reread the Delta thing, and apart from punching down at poor people, something stood out. I might be wrong since I don’t reside in racism, but isn’t Sprite (like grape soda) a shibboleth to point out Black people?
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Yup
Stacey Abrams???
Okay, that one was kind of funny.
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that’s odd, I didn’t really consider it to be all that funny. I found it to be realistic.
I don’t think you’ll find many willing to stand up and defend Facebook for much.
it’s more than just Facebook
https://www.nationalreview.com/2020/04/coronavirus-politics-media-owe-senator-tom-cotton-apology/
I think that’s fair to hold WP and NYT’s feet to the fire. Honestly I think they’ve been very alarmist through the pandemic.
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Well this was in New York Times’s “The Morning” this morning:
[relevant excerpt]
The boy cried wolf and no one listened. He had no evidence at the time other than the location of the institute in the city where it originated. The rhetoric led to Asian American being targets of harassment and hate crimes. Should the village apologize to their idiot if he happened to do something correct knowing that he will continue to be an idiot?
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That’s mostly fair.
I agree with your crying wolf analogy, certainly. He killed his credibility.
But I do think there is this tendency with someone like that to assume that the truth must always be the opposite of what they say.
Suppose we both live in, say, New York City. And every single day, 365 days a year, I tell you that it’s going to snow tomorrow.
You clearly shouldn’t rely on me for an accurate weather report because I’m obviously not a credible resource in this regard.
But you also shouldn’t assume that just because I said it WILL snow tomorrow that this automatically means that it WON’T. Sometimes it really will snow tomorrow.
And just because I say that it’s going to snow every single “tomorrow” maybe I’m like Rainman with numbers and can tell you off the top of my head that 847 x 329 = 278,663.
You probably shouldn’t confidently assert that 847 x 329 is NOT 278,663 just on the basis of the fact that I said it IS.
You should probably just ignore me altogether.
But I think a lot of folks have gone so far as to assume “if Trump/Cotton/[insert name here] said A then it has to be Not A”.
To be fair, this is probably a bigger problem with people on the right than people on the left, but I think it’s a problem that exists on both sides of the aisle.
TL/DR: Obama (or Clinton) Derangement Syndrome tends to be more severe than Trump (or Cotton) Derangement Syndrome, but the latter does actually exist.
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Agree that TDS exists. When Trump would blame the Wuhan lab, it came off as him trying to reject any role that he had in trying to lead the US through the pandemic. It wasn’t Trump’s problem to deal with since China created it. Whether or not TC was parroting that, or completely separating the call for an investigation from the broader COVID theatre the GOP was pushing, I really don’t know (doubtful with TC). I think if they had matched up the need to investigate with good COVID policy, it would have been better received.
TL/DR: Step 1, deal with COVID, Step 2, figure out what happened. They wanted to go directly to Step 2.
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This is the heart of the problem. The deflection of responsibility by Trump and now the deflection from recognizing his failures.
The arson investigation is done after the fire is put out. Whether the fire was started by arson and what we do about the arsonist is independent of the loses due to the firemen golfing while the building burned to the ground.
I think the real problem with TDS is a sufferer is right most of the time. Makes it incredibly difficult to cure.
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Colorado elementary school students got to submit proposed names for new snowplows. Some contenders:
https://www.axios.com/colorado-snow-plow-naming-contest-best-suggestions-7ad141e5-9244-427d-a688-7a0af823acc0.html
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