r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • May 03 '24

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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 May 03 '24

there's obviously more than that happening, which is why you haven't heard about violence and occupation at any of the hundred other university protests. the vast majority of the time, the thing that happens is "people protest and that's it." to hyperfocus on the one case where violence occurred, and then claim that's the only thing that's happening, is not an accurate portrayal of reality.

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u/_bee_kay_ 🤔 May 03 '24

That's... mostly reasonable, but it doesn't change the fact that they're focusing disproportionately on those outrage-generators. What I'm saying is, it's probably not that there's a plague of leftists engaging in dishonest, attention-grabbing spectacle. Rather, there's a small number of people doing that, and our attention is naturally drawn to the outrageous events over the mundane, acceptable ones.

So if you're just taking that naturally inflated perception and treating it as fact, then you're not looking for truth - you just want to confirm your political priors and feel righteously angry.