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People who obviously and decidely fall to one side of the political spectrum (in this case, liberal) who have a history of calling out conservatives for one-sidedness and refusal to look at the whole story, while they themselves adhere strictly to their liberal view and whatever one-sidedness supports it.
I know someone who is still fawning over the kid Ahmed, in Dallas, Texas, who got in trouble for that clock (that he didn't invent or build). He looks only at the fact that the kid was apparently heavily racially stereotyped and unjustly treated (which I pretty much agree with) while paying no attention to the fact that Ahmed is getting accolades for building NOTHING. He did not invent a clock. All he did was take apart a 1980s Micronta alarm clock and stick the parts inside a small pencil case.
The person I know has no regard for past disciplinary issues the kid had in school and passes that stuff off as "well, I haven't heard about that yet so I don't know that it's true, it could be made up."
Give me an f'ing break. At the same time he says stuff like "I'm going to wait for the whole story to be out to make my opinion." Come on... you've already formed an opinion that backs up your adherence to the liberal narrative that racial issues are out of control, that this poor kid did nothing wrong, and that the country is going to hell in a hand basket because of it.
Shit like this infuriates me. He calls out people on Meet The Press and Fox regularly for one-sidedness, taking some stance that he doesn't, yet I've watched it for years now from him. Ridiculous.
- So sad when people are too cognitively lazy, naive or just plain stupid to think on thier own and can only manage to parrot bullshit********
- Exactly. The Michael Brown case, for example, all that matters to him is that an unarmed black "kid" was killed. That evidence shows that Brownmg33
- fought with the officer, that evidence shows he charged the officer, is irrelevant to him. It doesn't matter that Brown was a behemoth of a young man, no longermg33
- a boy. All that matters is that a cop shot an unarmed black teenager, and didn't try to defuse the situation with hugs. It drives me crazy.mg33
- Yup. It's baffling. Weak minded people who can only deal in caricatures of good and evil, stoping to consider for a moment the complexities is simply asking to********
- -too much. *stopping********
- I try so hard to not frame too definitive a stance on something until all the info is out in the open. It seems foolish to do so these days as so muchmg33
- misinformation precedes legitimate fact.mg33
- A healthy dose of scepticism is needed, along with the self reflection necessary to question ones own confirmation bias********
- Agree with you both...********
- So sad when people are too cognitively lazy, naive or just plain stupid to think on thier own and can only manage to parrot bullshit