Heard this play out on NPR with them giving a right wing person a lot of platform to talk about how horrible it was for Charlie Kirk to be killed and what a good guy he was and the good things he did.
Despite getting a more than fair opportunity to present this viewpoint, they didn’t really inject anything vaguely tricky until he went off on political violence from the left. The interviewer then said something like “and of course you would condemn such violence regardless of political leaning”. He said sure, but only the left is really such a concern. Then she brought up the killings of those democrats and the hit list and he just lost it at how just terrible she was being. Dude you got every bit of an opportunity to be sympathetic and all you had to do was refrain from blindly accusing all left leaning folks…
Man, this is social media right now. The right’s troll hate farms are in full swing.
Heard this play out on NPR with them giving a right wing person a lot of platform to talk about how horrible it was for Charlie Kirk to be killed and what a good guy he was and the good things he did.
Despite getting a more than fair opportunity to present this viewpoint, they didn’t really inject anything vaguely tricky until he went off on political violence from the left. The interviewer then said something like “and of course you would condemn such violence regardless of political leaning”. He said sure, but only the left is really such a concern. Then she brought up the killings of those democrats and the hit list and he just lost it at how just terrible she was being. Dude you got every bit of an opportunity to be sympathetic and all you had to do was refrain from blindly accusing all left leaning folks…
State a wild argument attacking a group, when countered with facts, play the victim and act like you’re being attacked. This is how they operate.