It's fascinating in a "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra" sense. He begins a clause, and finishes it with nonsense filler words.
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But his followers have already used their bias to fill in meaning.
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"You look at what happened in Sweden last night, they took in large numbers, they're having problems they never though possible."
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This isn't a sentence. It's three sentence fragments strung together that only make sense if you fill in meaning.
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Sweden didn't take in large numbers of anything the night before, nor did they have problems taking in large numbers. No, this is innuendo.
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And none of us know what it's supposed to mean because we're trying to reconstruct logical sentences, and not filling in with our biases.
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The sentence makes perfect sense to his followers. A large number of muslim refugees caused problems that the lying media isn't reporting.
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This style of speaking reinforces the biases of the listener, that's why it's so dangerous. We can't treat it as if Obama is speaking ConLaw
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Trump "says it like it is" by saying the first part of a thought and letting the listener fill in the rest. Exactly as it is in their mind.
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I call such vague verbage "Tofu Talk"--filled w/ holes, designed for deflection, hearers fill in own bias flavor. Insidious.
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Damn you must really hate tofu!
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Plain, yes. But in right kinda curry, mmm! Didn't mean to demean tofu ...
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right, a language not filtered by hatred of all old white men
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Just the hatred of everyone else.
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This is really insightful. Keyword-based language of right media ("Sweden" = long critique of Euromulticulturalism) assists.
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More than other politicos, Trump is a consumer of right-wing media memes. He knows how his fans will complete the sentence.
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@jbouie They don't understand. They fill in the gaps with racism and xenophobia. That's the underlying point of all of it. - 1 more reply
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