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When someone attacks the messenger rather than the message, they’re usually revealing something.

Friday night in Austin, Texas, the Republican presidential nominee, Donald Trump, fiercely criticized The Atlantic’s editor in chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, over a recent report about Trump’s troubling attitude toward the military, which he believes should be loyal to him personally. As Goldberg reports, Trump said, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” which is both chilling and historically illiterate.

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[–] [email protected] 40 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

you do everyone a disservice by calling what trump and his legion have been doing "dog whistles" same as you do when you post articles calling their naked racism anything but naked racism, it's not cheeky, it's assistance

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The article as a whole calls out his racism, antisemitism, and antiveteranism. (He's all for calling out the military to attack the people, but would dump any of them who get injured on the scrapheap.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, but making a thoughtful post about the article actually requires reading it. Just being outraged at the media is much easier intellectually. Bonus points because it's popular here on Lemmy.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

It's still very true that the media deserves it, though. Their normalizing and both-sidesing and horse-racing and sanewashing has been a large part of how this fascist cancer was allowed to metastasize in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 weeks ago

It’s still very true that the media deserves it,

The article is calling it out, while the poster is claiming that it isn't calling it out. It's definitely not deserved here, and they are just being mindlessly outraged. It's the exact same shit I see from dumbass trump supporters: the facts don't matter, only the narrative.