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by kbenson 1784 days ago
> I said, anyone who would tune out The Guardian article as noise because they disagree with the topic is not the target audience of the walkout.

No, you said "There is almost nothing which would change the minds of the people who don’t already understand these as problems." That's far more expansive than a statement about the people that read the Guardian that don't agree ignoring it. It's one thing to say people may not trust one source or how it's presented, it's an entirely different thing to say they are unwilling to consider any source or argument. One is stating the people have a bias around a source and/or topic, the other is painting a large group of people themselves as entirely unreasonable, and to me it seemed your statement was conveying the latter.

If that's not your intent, then we can just chalk this up to some combination of poor expression and poor interpretation and call it a day.

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we can be as pedantic as we like, but either way, people like that were not the target audience. <—- that’s the important piece of what i was saying.