Reply #69: Cliches are easy, analogies are hard

[omega minimo]

Well, let's see.

Imagine if there was another sub-group that suddenly got a lot of attention in the media, maybe more than they "deserved" relatively speaking. Maybe people are tired of hearing about ____ _____ _____ when all sorts of other things are going on and being un(der)reported. Maybe people think Big Media is "selling soap" as someone put it up above-- and they're sick of the cynicism and chain-jerking. And maybe DUers are discussing all this, outraged! and the posts start appearing; the descriptions become slogans, the shorthand becomes slurs against the subject of the stories, rather than the Big Media that is cynically jerking the chains.

This sub-group could be the unfortunate victims of medical malpractice or unsafe medications-- that would be the issue to discuss, not whether this sub-group was given more attention than others because of their social status.

And if their condition resulted in disability, there would be even more issues to discuss, and even more potential for demonizing people with similar conditions, once the focus was fully on Why are these people so damn special anyway?

What if those people weren't "blonde white chicks".........what if they were "blind limp dicks" who had taken Viagra and lost their sight?

Does that help?

:wow:

Thanks for being #3-- ("not flaming, just asking")