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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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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Dec 2005 18:12:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>&lt;p&gt;I didn't watch the Planet of the Arabs link, but I read the statistics under it, which gets the point across.  I'd have expected them to be bad, but they're even worse than I would have guessed.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p&gt;And it's very instructive to think about, because we've probably all experienced anger due to negative portrayals of some facet of "our" tribe in the media.  For our social circles, it might be when some news outlet rags on "gamers" or "radical activists" or geeks or violent cartoons or whatever.  It'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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