HitEmWithTheHein wrote:
This, my friends, is a perfect example of the manipulation of language that goes on every day in the legacy news media. I do not know if Strava is just repeating what they've learned from such media, or if they're willfully participating in misdirection themselves. Either way, I'm sure that they're convinced of their own righteousness, which could be used to justify their motive.
So, with that in mind, let's take a close look at their statement:
The contrast between how the mob of domestic terrorists was treated as they breached the US Capitol and the treatment of those who peacefully demonstrated against systemic racism in places like Washington D.C., Portland, Minneapolis and Detroit over the past months was deeply disturbing.
The above statement more than likely true.
The trickery is that they left out several very important aspects. They didn't compare the mob of domestic terrorists at the Capitol to the mobs of domestic terrorists in Washington D.C., Portland, Minneapolis, and Detroit. Nor did they compare those who peacefully demonstrated at the Capitol to those who peacefully demonstrated in the aforementioned cities.
From what I can tell, the mobs of domestic terrorists in places like Portland met little resistance when they took over buildings, mobbed, burned, stole, murdered, and seceded from the union, for months. In contrast, the abhorrent act at the capitol, where a woman was shot by police, was over very quickly. Can any of us say her name?
When claims such as Strava's are made, it's up to all of us to scrutinize their statements not just for factual content, but also for what is left out. The legacy media and social media have been twisting information like this for far too long. To echo the cry from left, you have to, "educate yourself."
To lay my cards on the table, I'm a middle aged Mexican-American. This alone shouldn't imply anything about my politics. In fact, I don't have any particular political leanings, but I do try to scrutinize the claims made by both sides. It's worth noting that on message boards and in my private life, those who are on the right tend to encourage me to scrutinize both sides. Those who lean left seem to scold me a lot for looking into facts, motivations, and half-truths.