- cross-posted to:
- chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
- cross-posted to:
- chapotraphouse@hexbear.net
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9447978
Hasan more popular then trans gender on fox news
cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/9447978
Hasan more popular then trans gender on fox news
I’ll just go through one by one and give my thoughts and point out where I saw bias.
Right off the bat, instead of directly saying “he’s a leftist political commentator on twitch”, you instead just say he “ties himself to and uses the language of” leftist candidates. This makes it seem like you’re implying that he isn’t an actual leftist, or that he’s just doing leftism as a performance or something. It’s dismissive of reality, not to mention overcomplicating things.
Your acknowledgement of a positive is immediately followed by a “but” statement, dismissing of the positive. It also places blame on him instead of on the candidates for their campaigns, where it actually belongs in most cases. It also mirrors right-wing talking points where they claim that his “radical viewpoints” are actually fracturing the Democratic base, instead of introducing leftist ideology to an audience that no one else on the left has been able to meaningfully reach yet.
Phrasing it like this implies you don’t believe him. It’s dismissive again.
Again echoing the dismissive right wing talking point of “he can’t possibly be a ‘Real Socialist’, he comes from a rich family and buys expensive things!”, on top of sowing doubt about his explanation of shopping secondhand. You also confused “outlet stores” for consignment shops.
Other than the first sentence, this whole paragraph is dismissive of his charity/fundraising efforts, and is colored by your personal negative bias and what you confidently claim his net worth is (I can find estimates that vary widely from the range you claim).
This is your opinion stated as fact.
This is your opinion stated as fact.
This is unfounded speculation.
I catch bits and pieces of his stream here and there, and in my experience he pretty consistently calls down chatters that are being inappropriate. It sounds like your speculation is based on articles about his streams that cherry pick and decontextualize things.
This at minimum deserves some examples. Kinda hard for people to “do their own research” when you give so little to go off of.
Another right wing talking point that Hasan himself has addressed and debunked.
Another talking point that has been debunked so thoroughly not even the right still uses it.
Do you see it now, or do you still think your comment is unbiased?
Sorry, very late - I completely missed your message until now. Apologies for that.
I’ll try to find the time to answer you in-between work to give some quick evidence to each claim.
I don’t have it at hand, and most of my research is weeks, if not months, old at this point. I didn’t expect to spend time debating it with people online, so didn’t put together a whole dossier on it.
That is also largely why I left the door open for others to reach their own conclusions via their own research.
But I’ll try to compile something for you.
Edit:
Also, the reason I say “uses the language of” and “he says” is because I’m avoiding making a judgement call on it. It’s unfortunate if it comes across as biased. I don’t believe I hold any bias in those, but I do understand that perhaps those phrases have occasionally been co-opted by partisan outlets, but it’s neutral phrasing and just because some actors use it in bad faith doesn’t mean it is bad faith by default.