And I know I need to get over it but it still burns me up that they refer to blm and Antifa thuggery as “protests”. They wrote all kinds of articles saying most people didn’t do any violence. Then by that standard most people didn’t do anything on Jan 6.
They used a nifty bit of tortured statistics to arrive at these conclusions.
There were 700 violent BLM protests. They caused two billion dollars in damage. How do you whitewash such insane numbers?
Easy: you count every conceivable activity as a protest so that the total number of “protests” reaches 10,000. Now you can claim that 93% of protests were peaceful.
Never mind the fact that you are probably counting silly shit like fat people kneeling for the anthem or high schoolers staging a walkout to avoid taking a test.
Never mind that there were 700 violent protests that destroyed $2 billion in property (and killed a bunch of people).
All that matters is that you get to say “93% peaceful”.
Great analysis. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about these kinds of techniques, and how people hide truth or smuggle bad data past people’s attention (and I’ve posted a few times about such things lately). That kind of bullshittery is all over the media these days. Thank God there are still people out there who ask the follow up questions, or take a second look at the methodology, etc.
And I know I need to get over it but it still burns me up that they refer to blm and Antifa thuggery as “protests”. They wrote all kinds of articles saying most people didn’t do any violence. Then by that standard most people didn’t do anything on Jan 6.
They used a nifty bit of tortured statistics to arrive at these conclusions.
There were 700 violent BLM protests. They caused two billion dollars in damage. How do you whitewash such insane numbers?
Easy: you count every conceivable activity as a protest so that the total number of “protests” reaches 10,000. Now you can claim that 93% of protests were peaceful.
Never mind the fact that you are probably counting silly shit like fat people kneeling for the anthem or high schoolers staging a walkout to avoid taking a test.
Never mind that there were 700 violent protests that destroyed $2 billion in property (and killed a bunch of people).
All that matters is that you get to say “93% peaceful”.
Great analysis. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about these kinds of techniques, and how people hide truth or smuggle bad data past people’s attention (and I’ve posted a few times about such things lately). That kind of bullshittery is all over the media these days. Thank God there are still people out there who ask the follow up questions, or take a second look at the methodology, etc.