"Which is the better way to bring an end to the protests?" 54% of whites choose "Make changes and police reforms that help address discrimination." Only 46% choose "Use police and law enforcement to punish people who protest" or "Neither, the movement will end on its own."
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Replying to @saletan
I'm often struck by how poorly worded poll questions are but that one is just truly awful. Surprising that they got anyone to answer it at all -- kind of makes a mockery of the whole topic.
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Replying to @MZHemingway
Everything Trump has said about the protests fits pretty cleanly into response option #2. He has spoken of criminal justice reform, but never as a way to end the protests, as far as I can recall. So I think it's a decent test of how many people see it the way Trump does.
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Replying to @saletan @MZHemingway
The protest is largely caused by the press - people like you - systematically portraying unjustified violence by police against blacks as common, when it is in fact rare. Come to think of it, pretty easy to fix that.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @MZHemingway
Or — and hear me out — maybe it had something to do with a guy being pinned down under a knee for eight minutes.
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Replying to @saletan @MZHemingway
He was full of fentanyl, complaining about being unable to breathe before the cops ever touched him. And, rare is rare: if you were as innumerate as the average reporter, that would be one thing. I don't think you are.
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Replying to @gcochran99 @MZHemingway
That's the point. He was in obvious distress. Told them 20 times he couldn't breathe. They held him down, anyway, in the worst position for somebody in that condition. They told him he was fine. All of this is in the transcripts.
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No, as was famously in the national discussion when discussing patients of the pandemic - "proning protocol"
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