"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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If I owned a big paper, I could talk about the ever-growing threat of people dying in a burning Tesla. it's rare, but it has happened. But of course that vast exaggeration would be a lie. And lying, we know, is a sin.
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Conservativs a no better at this. Since 9/11 they terrify the whole nation by claiming that radical islamic terror is a threat. Which it isn't considering the statistics
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I missed the part where conservatives were rioting all over the country because of their poor grasp of statistics.
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Oh they did so in Afghanistan/Iraq if I remeber correctley. killing fare more people than those rioters did in USA
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Sorry man, you're not up on current events - Trump wanting to end those wars is bad now.
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