Mike4 wrote:Arborbridge wrote:servodude wrote:
In the immortal words of Taylor Swift "Haters gonna hate"
If they can get air time by pointing at someone doing the right thing and blowing a raspberry I guess that's what they'll do.
it's a bit sad and frankly a bit worrying if you can be disparaged because your common sense comes across as a bit different to the party line
- some places have re-education camps for that kind of thing; I'm guessing her detractors can rely on the Sun to do it for them (for now)
- sd
It's difficult to make a comment here which isn't political, but I expect there are people who might think that the PM has done it again by speaking out against, and I would say misinterpreting, what Jenny Harries said. She didn't remotely saying anything like "cancel Christmas", or "cancel Christmas get-togethers", (see said it would be helpful to reduce socal contact a little) yet this has been made to as though she was contradicting her ultimate boss when he reacted to the
apparent confict of views. I'm undecided when this is meedja stirring or the top man confusing everyone again. Reconciling what the two parties in this said is very easy: blowing out of proportion is also, unfortunately, very easy.
Arb.
It strikes me that politics demands binary. Black or white, yes or no, heads or tails, everyone must always do
this, or must always do
that.
Jenny Harries' message was nuanced which never plays well in politics.
Politicians, media etc generally respond to nuance by translating it back into binary thereby deleting the nuance, and appears to be what's happening here.
I made a conscientious effort to stay away from politics in my post
I think quite strongly that you shouldn't berate anyone for their objective analysis of a situation; but there's a tranche that equate subjective "opinion" with an analytical professional "opinion'
We see them here regularly with their "that's just like your opinion man" rejoinders; and while I mostly find that offensive because I'm a fan of "The Dude" it's also just boring sub-sixth form trolling cunnery
But apparently it's really popular!?
- seriously George Carlin was right! (About lots... but especially "average people", "words you can't say" .... and "Wyld Stallions!" obviously)
Be excellent to each other
- and if you find your paper of choice being mean to a lady because she made a decent suggestion consider your subscription.... and possibly your values?
-sd