Trump Documentary on Netflix

[Dill]

(12-28-2018, 12:41 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: Quote:Being honest that Trump supporters wouldn't watch it but hoping that people who claim to be open minded will?  Okay.

Hey Dill, that thing you said you never see, here's another example of it.

That thing you can never seem to define, only point at?

I'm not much needed on this thread. Five posters have already unpacked the errors in both your initial and follow up statements about the Trump documentary, and followed up some of the implications of your rules for reading.  If there is something called "confirmation bias" then what you are demonstrating here could be called "pre-confirmation bias," in which your beliefs about sources already determine what you will or will not read, what they can or cannot say to you--in short, what you already know and will ever know about those sources.  

One feature of the current conjuncture seems to be this widespread and underdeveloped conception of "bias" as automatically disqualifying books, film, arguments etc. beforehand, without need to actually read or watch them.   It has evolved with the right wing critique of "liberal media" which began in the Nixon era, and consists in privileging assessments of source over logical analysis of the content and form of arguments. It is a type of self-censorship which actually appears, to the self censor, as critical, independent thinking.   He's not being fooled or manipulated if he recognizes 'bias' everywhere.

LOL yes he is.