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23 May, 10 tweets, 3 min read
Why
Honestly wanted to tweet something witty and sat there for about five minutes and all I could come up w/ was "why?"
Here's the thing. I am not opposed to interviewing Trump voters about their feelings about racial justice or the specific case of George Floyd. I'm in favor of gathering sociological information just for the historical record. But that's not what the Times' did here.
What the Times did was to just air Trump voters' feelings w/o any analysis and to then describe this platforming as commentary on the ***legacy*** of George Floyd. None of these comments reveal anything about Mr. Floyd's legacy or his death. They reveal things about Trump voters.
This isn't about George Floyd. It's about the people being interviewed. And, in the absence of any analysis, it's not even sociologically interesting or informative. How many people would read an article called "14 White Liberal Women's Thoughts on the Legacy of George Floyd."
No one would want to read that. Because what do 14 random white liberal women have to say about the legacy of George Floyd? It wouldn't be about *him*. It would be about *them*.
But, when it comes to Trump voters, they get a special platform to talk about what a man's murder means to them. A platform w/out fact-checking or any kind of sociological analysis. Just a blank canvas for their own sociopolitical psychologies that exist separately from Mr. Floyd
So, I repeat: WHY
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And I will repeat: I think there is historical/sociological/psychological worth in documenting the thoughts of any group. But documenting & analyzing is different than just broadcasting "14 Neo-Nazis on the Legacy of the Holocaust."

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