I think you're reading "my perspective" into some place, since I haven't given my perspective on Trump supporters here.
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My discussion is about the hedging language that preceded it and asking why do that:https://twitter.com/chrisgeidner/status/774457367522082816 …
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@ParkerMolloy@fmanjoo I'm going to say "okay" and walk away because it's after 1am on a Friday night/Saturday morning1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Okay. I'm not sure what that means, but, okay.
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"is it beneficial to the greater cause to play devil's advocate for trump's demographic?"
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I wasn't doing that! Not at all, and you're either reading things into what I wrote or intentionally misreading what I wrote.
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I guess I'm confused by the "maybe..." followed by the "but..."; was this purely thought exploration?
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I was saying, "I don't think HRC's campaign has taken position that 50% of Trump supporters are deplorable, but maybe they are."
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Does that inverse recitation make it more clear? I was saying, "I don't think this is their position, but maybe it is."
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But, more importantly, that was just an underlying Q to the actual Q I was asking: Why the "grossly generalistic" caveat?
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If she/they believe it, why hedge, which undermines the claim? If she/they don't believe it, why say it?
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because to play politics is to play semantics? I don't think hedging undermines here.
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