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Step Seven: Posters then resort to name calling and misquoting in order to justify their particular moral high ground.

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I often lurk in the Real World Events chat area to see what people are talking about, and I've been struck by the consistency with which the pattern of these conversations take. It's an easy template to follow:

Step One: Someone posts a news story about a perceived injustice in another country, usually, but not exclusively the Middle East.

Step Two: Said poster bemoans the lack of justice in that area.

Step Three: Said poster is supported by one or two posters who concur that injustice has been done, and that shame should be doled out in ladelfulls.

Step Four: The story is challenged by other posters arguing that Event X happens all the time in America, and that America, and by America it is meant the US, is simply another shade of the same color.

Step Five: Challenging Posters are then challenged by other posters aruing that the circumstances are different, or some such, and that events like these are different from events like those and so on.

Step Six: Posters on both sides of the argument then proceed to post multiple news stories confirming their particular perspective on the event, thuse proving that Event X is JUST LIKE or NOT AT ALL LIKE what happens in America.

Step Seven: Posters then resort to name calling and misquoting in order to justify their particular moral high ground.

Don't believe me? Watch what happens in the next twenty-four hours. I read three or four of these a week.

Odd, with all the American comparing, and praising, and bashing, and whatnot.

Edited for typo.

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Don't believe me? Watch what happens in the next twenty-four hours. I read three or four of these a week.

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I think this will have culminated in the ultiamte Real World Events discussion thread.

Oops, we'll also need someone to post some newspaper stories in order for others to post conflicting newspaper stories as a way of retort. Then, and only then, will we have perfected the thread.

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