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Comment on Why are people on the internet (and Lemmy) so quick to say someone "deserves to die"
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago“AOC slams Trump.”
They may as well be writing articles that say:
Trump fucking body slams Biden.
Illuminostro@lemmy.world 2 years ago
damnedfurry@lemmy.world 2 years ago
That’s because you’re a textbook example of the infantile minds infecting areas where actual discourse has a chance to happen.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 years ago
True that. And you reminded me a tidbit of human nature, that interferes in this situation:
If you mince words to make something look stronger, weaker, better, worse than it is, plenty people fall for it. Because they care too much about how something is said (the words) and too little about what is being said (the discourse).
SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 years ago
What’s really crazy to me is that it’s not impossible to use a rhetorical device but still have it be rooted in reality. Like you can say “AOC doles out biting critique to GOP leadership” or something.
lvxferre@mander.xyz 2 years ago
Possible? Yes. Desirable? No; at least, not for most news sources - the extreme sells better than the simply informative, and often this lack of precision how they manipulate your views towards a certain subject.