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Topic subjectYup. all this
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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