Fwiw I don't think there are any pro abortionists. I think everyone would prefer that no one ever need to have an abortion.
I'm not arguing with that. That's the main reason I think you can never outlaw them completely. I think there should be some restrictions, but they need to be legal and available when needed.
Actually, I find your reply to be a rather strained attempt to rationalize why I should not be appalled at that image, and that seems like a lot of work to go through just to erase the way I feel, my feelings being somehow unjustified. I’ll decide how I feel.
Are you familiar with a concept called ‘the Perception Gap’? Roughly speaking it describes the difference between the values actually held by Republicans versus the values Democrats believe Republicans hold, and vice versa.
This is the component to your first post that I was missing. This was the disconnect. You are correct in that I don’t see the 230,000 people in the northwest corner of Georgia who voted for MTG, roughly 75% of the population, through that lens. I freely admit that I prefer not to see a large group I’ve never met as a cesspool of “hate and anger” who secretly harbor desires of murdering people they disagree with politically. It could be naivety on my part. I’m open to changing my opinion if you have evidence as I have known some extremely hate-filled individuals.
Despite your inability to actually provide a reference, I found where you grabbed those graphs, and, I assume, your entire idea from. (The source tag at the bottom of the LAST graph gave it away.) I haven't done enough (any) investigation to determine whether the people behind it have a particular axe to grind (I don't like taking their own word for it in their bios.) The page itself looks professional, which, at least, is a plus.Are you familiar with a concept called ‘the Perception Gap’? Roughly speaking it describes the difference between the values actually held by Republicans versus the values Democrats believe Republicans hold, and vice versa.
For instance, let’s say a researcher asked Republicans on a scale of 1-10 how much they loved trucks and got back an average of 6 out of 10. Then the researcher asked Democrats how they believed Republicans would answer the truck question, and the Democrats thought Republicans would answer the truck question with a 9 out of 10. The true value was 6 while the imagined value was 9. The Perception Gap among the polled Democrats on that question would be 3.
This metric is interesting because I believe it shows the true causes of America’s polarization. The more news you watch, the less you are able to see a realistic picture. Those who are highly informed on current events have been shown to on-average have statistically the most distorted, cartoony, wrong idea about the other political party’s followers.
Engaging in political-centric social media correlates with being more wrong about the other political party’s followers.
The correlation I find most interesting is the more time someone of the political left spends in college, the more wrong they become.
This is the component to your first post that I was missing. This was the disconnect. You are correct in that I don’t see the 230,000 people in the northwest corner of Georgia who voted for MTG, roughly 75% of the population, through that lens. I freely admit that I prefer not to see a large group I’ve never met as a cesspool of “hate and anger” who secretly harbor desires of murdering people they disagree with politically. It could be naivety on my part. I’m open to changing my opinion if you have evidence as I have known some extremely hate-filled individuals.
Keeping in mind that you do seem to be in the high risk group of seeing people as a caricature, in that you resonate with the political group in opposition to MTG, do seem well informed on current events, and come across as well educated, what makes you perceive the people of northwest Georgia as a “base infected with hate and anger”? What makes you so sure you've got the intended target audience of this clip nailed down?
That's to be expected. You learn about people with opposing views by spending time with them.
It isn't just the bottom figure. There is a reference in the lower left corner of every figure.
Well, alrighty now….billboard in Georgia…
Of course, it is a misquote…
Billboard Hailing Donald Trump As Second Coming of Jesus Appears in Georgia
The ad, which popped up in Marjorie Taylor Greene's congressional district, includes a quote purporting to be from the Bible.www.newsweek.com
I'm sorry, I simply meant that I hadn't noticed it until the last one, I wasn't specifically accusing you of deliberately cropping it out of the other images.
You're overlooking the obvious.....
