12950389, Yup. all this Posted by Mynoriti, Thu Dec-31-15 10:12 PM
>...and more important matters that have much wider reaching >and serious effects are also happening all the time, usually >to much less fanfare. > >Does this prove anything more than that the public at large is >more interested in easy to digest, shocking/flashy headlines? >Not really. You can cherry-pick examples almost any week and >the idea of orchestrated distractions can look true through >the lens of confirmation bias, but that's not very useful, >especially if your point is that it makes the charges against >Cosby look dubious. > >To be clear, irrelevant is in quotes because this isn't >actually irrelevant, especially if it gets us to shine a light >on the way that accusations by women against men are so easily >dismissed by so many people
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