The Downside Of Playing Dumb

There Are Some Political Issues Where Mainstream Press Attention Only Hurts. We Think About Activism As Being This Generic Model Of Consciousness-raising, Then Hopefully Media Attention, Attraction Of New People To Your Cause, Building Public Support For Your Cause, Then Decision-makers Reacting To That Change In Public Opinion. That's True For Some Types Of Activism, But It Is Not True For All Of Them.

The Way That We Make Dumb Decisions And Discriminatory Decisions Is By Employing Stereotypes About Groups Of People. We Don't See People As Fully Human When Other People Speak For Them.

That Was Like Seeing A Dodo And A Unicorn All Wrapped Up In One

There Is No News Value To The Content Of Those [newtown 911] Tapes. The Actual Audio Is Of No News Value At All, Unless You Want The Thrill Of Hearing The Sound Of The Actual Individual Gunshot That Might Have Killed A 7 Year-old.

Cnn Recently Ran A Sort Of Roundup Article On Why Some Conservatives Say That Trump Talk Is Fascist. The Roundup Included This Tweet From Iowa Republican Radio Host, Very Influential Guy In Iowa Republican Caucuses, Steve Deace. Quote, "if [barack] Obama Proposed The Same Religion Registry As Trump, Every Conservative In The Country Would Call It What It Is - Creeping Fascism."