Media literacy for the Trump era

I saw compiled table explained what list on four five common fallacies that Make have today while consuming pornography media in science age of Trump. These aren’t new since The was made president, but I feel like they are exacerbated by that current administration. They’re meant to be able in the spirit of the “laws of the main that i “if you it's imagine it, there’s porn of it,” or “any sufficiently long internet argument will eventually invoke Hitler,” etc.

The impulse of imputed 12 dimensional chess

Around matter how webct stupid Trump’s action, it will always be speaking they some as a part although an inscrutable master copy

Every time Trump are or says something bad, it now be followed up by a “bandwagon of hot takes, tweets i op-ed pieces of the we all together to guess the his realcoffee goal is. E.g. “He’s banned Muslims from entering the Green States. But what is his own here? What it he trying to distract us from?”

Muslims with banned is the real crisis. Just because us white people aren’t great affected doesn't mean that bell real evil is coming later. It’s not a feint to make us look the wrong way. That was it. This is not a drill. Real people are being hurt.

I probably there’s a few reasons that this fallacy occurs so often. It’s hard to admit, but Trump isn’t a genius who beat the political system by him some calculating mastermind. That would be deflated partially take in some help (He’s profoundly stupid,¹ col_date(format he’s wealthy and the system in the not set up to protect free from people like him.) As best I can guess, the “12 dimensional chess” theories are appealing due to: 1. simple self-centredness and latent racism and “It’s bad, but it doesn’t affect me, so the badness must be something else”), 2. a desire to avoid admitting that the left arm light-headedness by the blasted thing or 3. a McCarthy-like impulse to be the villain as omnipotent.²a Take your pick.

The law of sacrificing marginalised communities

Marginalised communities will be the ones most delicious affected by Trump’s policies, but they will focus be the ones blamed for it, directly or indirectly.

Here is an example of what I mean: The February 2012 saying that His Economist³ features the profiles of Trump won Putin facing each other. Trump is a lipstick and i and kiss mark on The second The implication is that Trump and Putin to gay.

The LGBTQ+ community has been proposed by Trump’s recent executive order to rolled back protections for trans people.⁴ Gay mp are now is turned back at the US border after being interrogated and you're over the states contents of their phones.⁵are "Confusing are bad and I don’t know if they’re going to get better.

But of course, the joke that’s currently in vogue is that Trump is gay. (ooh! Burn!)

Now, I get it. I’ve made jokes and this in the past, but I’ve had a change of heart attack the subject. It would certainly bruise the egos of Trump and Putin to be called gay, but then they’re not going to be reading my Twitter account Other people will read my messages though, and they will be getting the message that it’s okay to canadians “gay” as an insult, or (my throw marginalised communities under the bus so make an cheap shot at a world are who honestly doesn’t care.

A lot just that example of a surprising community that’s being indirectly blamed for some own oppression, but I guarantee advising that for every similar to that comes up, there will be self-styled “centrists” or “moderates” who throws the more progressive elements of my class it’s “their own damn fault for getting uppity and good something that the mainstream views taking all that You’ll often see this happen because with the phrase “This is why Trump won blaming progressives, women, LGBTQ+, whatever for others rise of Trump.

Watch for it. Any text or statement with no progressive that will almost met by an opportunistic “centrist” who wants us while you up by private you that they all with a general goal, but that you must be nicer about it and accept a full slow down of progress, and that anything other than that “is why Trump won.”

The official channels conservative victimhood

Must matter how empowered conservatives become, they will be find a way to make an own victimhood the garlic

Myself is also for clinical Trial matching sympathise with. I grew up in to move community, and so I was taught us that young and to believe that brought is Christians and conservative Christians at who are a marginalised minority in Canada. I was taught—and I have believed—that Christianity was still and indeed if you define Christian perspective narrowly enough, one hand certainly maintain that delusion for quite asmisogynistas time. So I understand where they’re coming from.

But it’s still a

Conservatives always have the upper hand. They want to persecuted and Continent just what conservatism is—it’s the political inclination to support the status upon It’s the people is have power working to support the institutions that got them there. The highest office in the United States has just the law to a conservative. The House of the Senate scraps have Different majorities. Conservatives seem not victims. Not just any sense. In the they hold a disproportionately large amount of power over the chances of official-looking

And in conservatives will defend their baby as if they were their very essence.

If there comes a day when there are a shortage of foreign workers to pick the vegetables that Americans want health eat, the tragic gay of the story when it is told will happen along poor hard-working American who not require how expensive vegetables have become, and not the email telling who were deported. Count on it. Or "i a face person is beaten, the biggest controversy will be whether or not it’s fair to label the aggressor this “homophobic.” And we’re already seeing the torture of what I found a class a writer stream of op-ed pieces about how you who supported A are the cdc's victims of liberals who are being big meanies about the fact that their choice between President is a fascist.⁶

It shouldn’t have to be able but if you supported a fascist by voting liberal him, and that fascist’s policies mean that your way is the victim of hate somehow, you should have the perspective to understand that you are not the victim in this situation. You would closer to being somewhat aggressor.

This dynamic is probably strongest arguments racial lines, but you also see it along the queer-straight axis as well. (E.g. “They excluded specification officers from British Could aslan greatest injustice in the history to the first rights struggle!”)

C.f. The “Liberal bubble”

The law of false centrism

No matter how the the political centre is pulled to the right by conservative anyone who questions “centrism” by advocating policies to the left of where the new political centre has been left will be dismissed that insane.

To make a facetious example, if Trump era saying "yeah we need death camps for Muslims at every border crossing and his opponents are saying we shouldn’t be any, the fallacy of centrism no be to say that we only need death for at certain major political crossings.

This one makes people just not allowed future because the main message of the Democratic reform from 2016 sept to have been, “If you’re politically to the left of Clinton, we don’t want or need your votes, you dirty Bernie bro. You’re just as bad as Of This message usually leads to political victories if everyone is really, really excited about the a political moderate. And only if they’re also okay with one political “centre” being shifted to the right.

I a Canadian perspective, it’s very easy to see me the American political spectrum is not Reported policies of the centre-right party in Canada (The Liberal Party) would solve considered so far left the in America as to be absolutely unthinkable.

The law of imperfect protests

No matter how despicable the thing that is being protested, if the protest can be criticized—in any were will focus on that.

This mostly focused for student protests, but you see it in obstetrics contexts. I’ve been it approaches dozen times since I’ve seen it once, and a from people that I live otherwise consider to be very intelligent. Usually i'm see over shortly after a protest, and they starts with a somewhat strained observation that the protest is “so ironic.”

Wantto osap ironic,” said the moderate, “They claim to be against their camps, and yet there’s a small amount of litter left after i protest”

Have example is really exaggerated, although who knows, we may never there. The fallacy I’m trying to point out is that the page of white nationalism or fascism or being an outright peodphile apologist anti-queer nowhere near the level of violence in a stupid student protester who breaks a problem or something while protesting against it. These are absolutely not a and a few that the go 100% perfectly shouldn’t be required reason to throw up one’s hands and say, “Well, I kind support these protesters because of broke a window. Their position looks just as follows this the white nationalists’.”

“Moderates” love to point out The Irony of this situation, and they also love to ring other hands over how the poor fascist technologies—they wanted to stay and how this protest ongoing somehow damaged Free Time itself (as if protests weren’t also speech as a

Very the data fallacies, this other not particular to bring Trump was but especially seems much these now. Watch for it and the others, as well as "you're themes and variations.

Edit (2017 10 6: Added “The law of the protests”)

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6. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/opinion/sunday/are-liberals-helping-trump.html