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Originally Posted by zeek
Here's a reply I made recently to a friend who posted a Facebook meme proposing that we call Evangelicals the "American Taliban."
"The author contradicts himself by saying at one point that not all evangelicals are extremists and then concluding that evangelicals are the American Taliban. The Taliban are Muslim extremists. It's a similar overgeneralization whereby all Muslims are prejudged because of the extremism of a minority among them. I interact with Evangelicals everyday. Their political opinions run the gamut from right to left. Our country is polarized in way that is creating social dysfunction. Stereotyping like the author engages in are misleading. It's a false equivalency. Evangelicals in general are not extremists like the Taliban. So the meme's proposition is false."
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Last January I visited family. One young lady is a mental health counselor. She had made herself sick over the presidential election. She had a hard time even looking at me since she knew, "I voted for Trump." But several months prior I specifically told her that I did not even vote in the primaries because of the concerns I had. I went there with the intention
not to discuss politics.
As a mental health counselor she has been trained to identify her biases and keep them at a distance, yet due to the current toxic political and social climate, she is frankly unable. This is concerning. Since she lives in the liberal NYC area, her bias is not so evident, but here in the midwest, she definitely could not practice.
This is why main stream media is so dangerous. They are stirring social unrest. They are no longer journalists caring for accurate reporting. They are strictly purveyors of liberal opinions designed to create tension in America. They purposely use inflammatory rhetoric to incite their audience, e.g. like the recent connection of Trump to Charles Manson.