Rex Kerr
Nov 11, 2020

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You think that’s true of seventy million Americans? You think that’s true even though many of them repeatedly and consistently report that being labeled racist (when they report believing that they are not, and studies of their judgments also agree that they’re not) as one of the most offensive things that they feel that the Left does to them? Why on earth would they do that when they’re like half the population? If you are 5% of the population with views that the other 95% find distasteful, you have to hide. If you’re 50%? Not really.

So this stretches credulity.

You also argue that they don’t care about (unborn) human life and abortion is “just an effective political sledgehammer”. How can you have an effective political sledgehammer about something nobody cares about?! Democrats have “they’ll cut Medicare and Medicaid” as a political sledgehammer…so…we are free to assume that nobody actually cares about Medicare and Medicated? Or must we conclude that people, misguidedly or not, do care about what they repeatedly say they care about?

I easily grant that there are some people who fit your characterization. And if you attack people enough, you might be able to drive more people to those views via “the enemy of my enemy is my friend” phenomenon. But why would you do that? And even if so, your reasoning and estimates of the prevalence don’t make sense.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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