Those two words seem to express what I think is a crucial falsehood, and it works for selective communication (dog whistling) if some people get cognitive dissonance for it and others don't. We have me as an example of the former and you as an example of the latter.
I'm not saying it's intentional, but it raises hackles for me.
Floyd was killed on Monday. According to the Wikipedia page on the protests, they began the following day, escalated to riots and burning a police station down. Chauvin was arrested on Friday.
So it is not true that everyone agreed from the beginning as it took a week to get to the point where everyone went "oh shit this is serious".
"started out...universal"
Those two words seem to express what I think is a crucial falsehood, and it works for selective communication (dog whistling) if some people get cognitive dissonance for it and others don't. We have me as an example of the former and you as an example of the latter.
I'm not saying it's intentional, but it raises hackles for me.
I'm still not seeing it. What's the crucial falsehood? Why does it give you cognitive dissonance?
Floyd was killed on Monday. According to the Wikipedia page on the protests, they began the following day, escalated to riots and burning a police station down. Chauvin was arrested on Friday.
So it is not true that everyone agreed from the beginning as it took a week to get to the point where everyone went "oh shit this is serious".
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