Not sure if you just grabbed the first source or if you regularly get news from there, but if you do, you are being fed a pretty strong narrative that is doing a poor job of telling the story.
Edit: As an aside, on the biggest problems on the internet which twitter itself perpetrates is what I call "this" culture. No one has to pontificate, just an empty quote or THIS and we have no more context. We are left to assume and depending on your bias one will just self-reinforce:
- if you agree with the quote: "he's one of us, and he gets it!
- if you disagree with the quote: "He's not one of us, and he's shown his true colors!"
Depending on the audience I've seen people of all stripes avoid adding actual commentary and use the same quote to represent "both sides" as an example... fascinating stuff.
Not sure if you just grabbed the first source or if you regularly get news from there, but if you do, you are being fed a pretty strong narrative that is doing a poor job of telling the story.
Here's the independent with slightly more context: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/twitter-pa...
Edit: As an aside, on the biggest problems on the internet which twitter itself perpetrates is what I call "this" culture. No one has to pontificate, just an empty quote or THIS and we have no more context. We are left to assume and depending on your bias one will just self-reinforce:
- if you agree with the quote: "he's one of us, and he gets it!
- if you disagree with the quote: "He's not one of us, and he's shown his true colors!"
Depending on the audience I've seen people of all stripes avoid adding actual commentary and use the same quote to represent "both sides" as an example... fascinating stuff.