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	<title>Comments on: Here&#8217;s a Thought</title>
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		<title>By: Ben</title>
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		<dc:creator>Ben</dc:creator>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I didn&#039;t watch the Planet of the Arabs link, but I read the statistics under it, which gets the point across.  I&#039;d have expected them to be bad, but they&#039;re even worse than I would have guessed.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And it&#039;s very instructive to think about, because we&#039;ve probably all experienced anger due to negative portrayals of some facet of &quot;our&quot; tribe in the media.  For our social circles, it might be when some news outlet rags on &quot;gamers&quot; or &quot;radical activists&quot; or geeks or violent cartoons or whatever.  It&#039;s aggravating and frustrating, and then we generally move on because there are more important things going on.  But then you can just attempt to imagine being in a social situation where that kind of thing happens &lt;em&gt;all the damn time&lt;/em&gt;.  That surely would suck.  And suddenly various media biases that look inconsequential from one perspective seem obviously horribly oppressive and demoralizing from another.&lt;/p&gt;
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I didn&#8217;t watch the Planet of the Arabs link, but I read the statistics under it, which gets the point across.  I&#8217;d have expected them to be bad, but they&#8217;re even worse than I would have guessed.</p>

<p>And it&#8217;s very instructive to think about, because we&#8217;ve probably all experienced anger due to negative portrayals of some facet of &#8220;our&#8221; tribe in the media.  For our social circles, it might be when some news outlet rags on &#8220;gamers&#8221; or &#8220;radical activists&#8221; or geeks or violent cartoons or whatever.  It&#8217;s aggravating and frustrating, and then we generally move on because there are more important things going on.  But then you can just attempt to imagine being in a social situation where that kind of thing happens <em>all the damn time</em>.  That surely would suck.  And suddenly various media biases that look inconsequential from one perspective seem obviously horribly oppressive and demoralizing from another.</p>]]></content:encoded>
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