TirithRR wrote:
It's not like you watched a bunch of liberal leaning news shows and thought "Wow, they never talked about Y subject? How come?"
Um... That's exactly what I have done (and still do). About 12 years ago, after getting annoyed at being accused of parroting conservative's I'd never heard of (and having not watched a single minute of Fox news or any other cable news channel), I decided that instead of just looking at what was written about something, and then arriving at my own conclusions (which apparently looked identical to just parroting what some other conservatives were saying), I'd spend some time actually listening/watching political talk to figure out what everyone was talking about.
But I didn't go to conservative sources. I spent like 6 months to a year listening to nothing but Air America in my car. I then tuned into MSNBC and CNN (basically every source *except* conservative ones). I did this precisely because I wanted to see what the liberal positions were, and what their arguments were. And yes, the entire time I was thinking "but what about this point or that point?". I formed my conservative arguments by listening to liberal arguments exclusively and seeing how they were flawed and why. And along the way, btw, I realized that all those liberals on this site accusing me of blindly parroting whatever was said on Fox news earlier that day, were suspiciously consistent at raising exactly the issues and points that were discussed on various liberal media sources that day. It was a pretty amusing example of projection really.
It was only after doing this for quite some time that I first tuned into a single conservative radio station, or watched a Fox news show. And what I discovered was that while I certainly did not agree with everything they said, or the conclusions they arrived at, or the proposals they made, their opinions were based on the same observations that I had made that formed mine. I do not parrot conservative viewpoints. Conservative viewpoints happen to be the viewpoints people like myself arrive at after listening intently to the liberal viewpoint, realizing how nutjob crazy it is, and seeing the obviously better alternative.
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No, instead you saw something and just assumed the side you did not agree with wasn't noticing or discussing the issue.
And yet, I don't recall any one else raising the issue here. Again, it's not just about whether something is mentioned, but whether it's given any weight or any effort is actually made to do anything about it. Do you think the average liberal, after watching some segment on this, was moved to care about it? Or just rejected it as "well, it's their choice, so I guess that's just their own fault" and moved on? I'm just observing the pattern of what constitutes something liberals feel they should fight for, and what does not.
Edited, Jan 15th 2016 9:19pm by gbaji