(06-29-2020, 12:30 PM)Protheroe Wrote:(06-29-2020, 08:24 AM)baggy1 Wrote: By giving the airtime to bigots, who can be very intelligent, educated and convincing you will get other bigots receiving confirmation bias.
In my experience, giving bigots mainsteam airtime has quite the opposite effect of providing confirmation bias. Don't you remeber the glorious defenestration of Nick Griffin on BBC QT?
If you want confirmation bias you'll gravitate towards the filthy ends of You Tube, Facebook and TOR.
You have to give extremism daylight, otherwise - like a mushroom patch - it'll thrive in the shade.
And by extremism, I mean of left and right and religious.
If you read my whole post you'll have seen that is what I said, thankfully I couldn't remember his name. The point was that you can do that with Griffin because he is thick but there are many intelligent bigots that know how to prepare and how to come across well - see my reference to Farage in the same post.
And the general public don't gravitate towards the filthy ends of YouTube etc, if they see someone articulate like Farage that peddles his crap then that will raise the profile of his hidden bigotry and that is the dangerous confirmation bias that is out there.