Messages from the other side

[Buckeye_Democrat]

19. They've certainly been instigators! It also comes from individuals on YouTube...

... who compile videos that try to portray the "others" in the most negative light.

It sometimes comes from people who focus on the worst behavior of African Americans to promote their racist narrative. Sometimes people focus of the worst behavior of Muslims. Other times, people focus on the worst behavior of police officers.

Instead of looking at data across a broad scale to get a better mental picture of reality, lots of people focus on anecdotes. If they're shown a flurry of anecdotes in succession, generalizations can become more entrenched in their minds.

I've seen the same kind of behavior here, to be honest. A thread sharing a personal story to help bolster the poster's narrative often gets many replies and recommendations, especially if the narrative is a pro-Democratic one. Unfortunately, those kinds of anecdotes frequently don't mean very much on a broad scale as they tried to imply.