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Topic	How does one break their parents' addiction to Fox News?
Paratroopa1 10/11/20 6:52:00 AM #64:	Mr Lasastryke posted... he's right but i also don't get what the point of his posts is? it's like if someone is saying "some people think the sky is purple and they're wrong" and colliding is saying "well, other people think that 'the sky is blue' is a wrong statement because the sky is purple from their perspective." sure, this is correct, but what's the merit in pointing this out? Like, his point is that the average Fox News viewer has been entrenched into Fox News's viewpoints to the extent that they just have a different belief about what truth is from the rest of us, and breaking them out of that would be like trying to break us out of not living in the Fox News world. It's hard conditioning to break out of - Fox News knows how to get people really addicted to what they're supplying. His point is perfectly salient to the discussion - I just mistook him as equivocating John Oliver to Fox News lol. <cite>Paratroopa1 posted [p:945720743] in How does o... [t:79028718]...</cite> <quote>Mr Lasastryke posted... </cite> <quote>he's right but i also don't get what the point of his posts is? it's like if someone is saying "some people think the sky is purple and they're wrong" and colliding is saying "well, other people think that 'the sky is blue' is a wrong statement because the sky is purple from their perspective." sure, this is correct, but what's the merit in pointing this out?</quote>Like, his point is that the average Fox News viewer has been entrenched into Fox News's viewpoints to the extent that they just have a different belief about what truth is from the rest of us, and breaking them out of that would be like trying to break us out of not living in the Fox News world. It's hard conditioning to break out of - Fox News knows how to get people really addicted to what they're supplying. His point is perfectly salient to the discussion - I just mistook him as equivocating John Oliver to Fox News lol. </quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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