If you needed evidence that feelings are not a reliable way of understanding reality, here’s this.https://twitter.com/juliaioffe/status/1056865090450939908 …
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But it's not necessarily hyperbolic to suggest that a foreign journalist in Russia faces less imminent threats than a US-based journalist in the US.
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1) She made a rather general statement, so deserves a response to what she actually said, 2) I think that depends on where the foreign journalist is from.
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Yeah, I suppose. It was clearly a statement about her personal experience (which looks complicated), but was worded to seem more all-encompassing. Either way, if journalists perceive a heightened domestic threat, that should be cause for compassion rather than eye-rolling, no?
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I am compassionate towards those feeling threated, particularly journalists. I am not compassionate towards downplaying the tragedies of other lands to add rhetorical weight to the direness of one's own situation. Julia made the same move re: ISIS today.
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I'm unsure it's downplaying here? Unless I'm mistaken, she never said being a journalist in Russia isn't dangerous. But I do agree that a lot of public figures spend too much time reframing issues (often to be US-centric). And yes, her ISIS comment was stupid
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Except, objectively, being a journalist in Russia is far more dangerous. Comparing her situation to theirs - as if hers was worse -is kinda disgusting.
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As far as I could tell, she only compared her own situation (in the US) to her own situation (in Russia). Her message is counter-intuitive yes, but not entirely outlandish
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I think it's b/c the hostility is more in-your-face (jeering crowds, social media threats, etc) now than it was then, for her.
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That sounds likely. Also the social media exposure probably does make her less safe, regardless of feelings.
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Yes, we must all remain calm while t---- destroys the constitution and wipes out any chance of restoring it, on his way to stealing the whole world. That's the important thing, that we all just stay calm.
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how much have you already decided to ignore or rationalize because you now have a white man in office and a tax cut?
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I have better work opportunities hurray, and I am Very glad the silly woman lost. The cardboard cutout you have of me may not reveal that i wish Every bounty & blessing on you, & all only the best.
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Given you started this conversation by yanking a gigantic stereotype out your head and shoving it in my direction, your complaint is rather ironic. Better work opportunities, hunh? Such as?
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Not in my head: I was reading your tweet as a gigantic stereotype, the Trump scary movie, devouring the world, come on. He monkey-wrenched whqt seemed the inevitable serene police state of hillary, and we are all better off for that.
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t---- intentionally stokes division and hatred by the hour to cling to power. He's sending 5200 troops to the southern border right now to stop a non-threat that happens every year--and the caravan won't even reach the border for weeks. But there's an election next week.
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He will do anything to cling to power. He's incredibly corrupt, which I'm sure you claimed was true of Hillary and made her unfit. Every person of color and sex/gender minority's life is in greater danger now. He puts the word of foreign leaders ahead of US intelligence agencies.
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Read somewhere that press freedom is higher in the states today than during Obama.
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Did they explain what has changed?
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The president. "I heard somewhere" is how GOP recycles bullshit.
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Many people are saying this now and a lot of people didn’t know about it
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