alt Hacker NewsCorolla demanded answers to complicated sociological questions. Newsome’s response was weak but I don’t see how that’s deflection. The question doesn’t matter to the topic being discussed. It’s an obvious gotcha question from an interviewer who just wants to make a ruckus. I don’t know why a professional politician can’t handle that, but bad handling of a stupid gotcha question is very different from contradicting yourself four times in ten seconds when asked a straightforward question about your own opinion.
This concept of “TDS” confuses me. Trump is a terrible person and a terrible president. Why wouldn’t I be Deranged about him? Thinking badly of him isn’t a Syndrome, it’s a natural consequence of the fact that he’s awful and he has way too much power over my life.
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> This concept of “TDS” confuses me. Trump is a terrible person and a terrible president
The only thing you need to understand "TDS" is knowing that it's the exact same accusation-in-a-mirror technique the fascists use on every other topic. By preemptively asserting that the critics are "deranged", they obscure the depth of their own reality distortion field for their cult leader. And for the casual observer who sees a bunch of drama and instinctively steers clear, the default conclusion is to think that the truth must be somewhere in the middle rather than doing the work to think about who is actually stirring up the chaos.
Right, it’s only a “gotcha” question if you’re not trying to communicate, and instead attempting to score cheap points with your dumber constituents.
You can do the same in reverse by letting a Republican give you their “obvious” definition then forcing them to try to nail jello to the wall by pointing out unintended (even by them) consequences of that, and the people who definitely exist and fall entirely outside their insistence on a binary (even in “biological” terms).
It’s because the actual argument is over who ought to be treated as a woman under which circumstances, not who “is” a woman. But if your audience will allow it it’s much simpler to just pretend the argument is over something else and your opponent is too stupid to define words we use every day.