How to write a contrarian right wing article - a tips thread.
1. Start by saying how awful whatever has just happened is (a murder, racist incident, etc).
2. Say many of your friends have also been murdered/subject to racism, etc.
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1. Start by saying how awful whatever has just happened is (a murder, racist incident, etc).
2. Say many of your friends have also been murdered/subject to racism, etc.
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3. Add some faux anger and indignation - 'I therefore won't be lectured by [insert celebrity]'on said problem.
4. Cite some dodgy statistics from another country to show how actually there is less of this problem now than there used to be, and how it was (n't) dealt with.
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4. Cite some dodgy statistics from another country to show how actually there is less of this problem now than there used to be, and how it was (n't) dealt with.
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5. Cite some anecdotes based on precisely zero empirical evidence (e.g. 'my son's school friends all tell me that...')
6. Attack the people who are concerned about the issue and distort reality (e.g. 'they are part of a campaign group funded by x', even if they aren't)
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6. Attack the people who are concerned about the issue and distort reality (e.g. 'they are part of a campaign group funded by x', even if they aren't)
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7. Falsely claim that those who object to said problem are actually doing more damage than good and it will lead to far more of these injustices [it won't]
8. End with hysterical hyperbole to get clicks (e.g. 'If I am murdered, so be it, at least someone else won't have been').
8. End with hysterical hyperbole to get clicks (e.g. 'If I am murdered, so be it, at least someone else won't have been').
I forgot that any article such as this should also speculate on what Churchill would have thought, with absolutely no reference to any historically relevant understanding.
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