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Roving journalist, friend to all dogs mtracey@protonmail.com / Signal: mtracey.57

Sep 2, 2020, 5 tweets

Column from me on why everybody is wrong about the political impact of riots: nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-ope…

Having gone around the country for two months to riot-stricken areas, not a single person proactively mentioned to me that they were suddenly now inclined to vote for Trump

And don't bother replying, "Hey! I live in or near a riot-stricken area and I'm now suddenly inclined to vote for Trump." You are the epitome of self-selection bias, given that you are going out of your way to reply to political tweets

Note: none of this is to say that the riots have had no political or cultural impact. If anything, the impact has been severely *downplayed* by an agenda-driven morally bankrupt media. It's scandalous. But still, the leap to "This Obviously Helps Trump" is erroneous

Anyway, just once try reading the entire thing before angrily tweeting how much you disagree

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