Re:John Raines, 84, Who Evaded Capture in an FBI Break-In, Dies
by vanderZwan on Wednesday November 22, 2017 @05:28PM
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> Ignorant people are the fault of... ignorant people?
Blindly assuming people are not reading the news because they are unaware of something reveals how you are not interested in wondering why they might not read the news.
And that assumption is built on an assumption that people who find value in Snowden's revelations (while you don't) can only be doing so because they are unaware of previous revelations.
This says more about your willingness to assume things about people you don't know. In short: your assumptions about others reveal more about your own biases and ignorance.
So your argument is basically this: Snowden revealed nothing new, therefore the people who think they did the right thing must have not known about these issues before, therefore those people must not read the news "or much at all".
The claim that nothing new was revealed is already wrong, and it only takes a quick visit to WikiPedia to figure that out[0][1][2]. Pretending you claim holds about Snowden barely revealing anything new, see my previous post about why unfiltered data from a whistle-blower matters to public perception.
And your conclusion, again, just reveals more about you: "I don't see what is so special about what Snowden did, therefore the people who do must be ignorant."
Blindly assuming people are not reading the news because they are unaware of something reveals how you are not interested in wondering why they might not read the news.
And that assumption is built on an assumption that people who find value in Snowden's revelations (while you don't) can only be doing so because they are unaware of previous revelations.
This says more about your willingness to assume things about people you don't know. In short: your assumptions about others reveal more about your own biases and ignorance.
So your argument is basically this: Snowden revealed nothing new, therefore the people who think they did the right thing must have not known about these issues before, therefore those people must not read the news "or much at all".
The claim that nothing new was revealed is already wrong, and it only takes a quick visit to WikiPedia to figure that out[0][1][2]. Pretending you claim holds about Snowden barely revealing anything new, see my previous post about why unfiltered data from a whistle-blower matters to public perception.
And your conclusion, again, just reveals more about you: "I don't see what is so special about what Snowden did, therefore the people who do must be ignorant."
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Snowden#Revelations
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_(surveillance_program)#R...
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_surveillance_disclosure...