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Passion guided by reason's avatar

You keep hitting them out of the park, Steve.

Bane thinks that "at least we are talking about it now", but the key question is whether the influence of BLM the organization has been to foster productive or counter-productive discussion (or yelling at each other).

Should we praise Trump because we are talking more about election integrity after his allegations about fraud? Yes, it's in the news more, but the content and flavor of the attention may have polluted that discussion rather than illuminated it.

It's not true that all publicity is good publicity. BLM's framing of the issue can both raise the profile and poison the well.

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Steve QJ's avatar

"the key question is whether the influence of BLM the organization has been to foster productive or counter-productive discussion (or yelling at each other)."

It's endlessly infuriating that so many people seem incapable of telling the difference nowadays.

Haha, I'll keep that point about Trump in my back pocket next time I find myself in one of those conversations. Excellent comparison.

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