If you want to see some weapons grade (pun not intended but I will leave it) sane washing this interview on the "moderate" bulwark network had my jaw on the floor.
There is something creepy about the calm, smart and sane (sounding) people talking about US foreign policy as if it isn't outrageous.
This kind of inability to recognize a crisis, a violation of the social order, a crime is what has us in this mess.
It's every person who thought "well he won't run again no need to put him in prison that's so extreme and makes me feel bad"
Some of it really felt like "but you know, maybe the trains will run on time soon" to me.
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The sane-washing has a large component of normalcy bias. Like the experiment where the participants sit in a waiting room and smoke is puffed under the door, but some of them are planted to sit there calmly and ignore it, so as to see how long it takes for the others to start acting as though there might be a fire and they should do something.
So yeah, some of the media ignoring the smoke are definitely doing it deliberately, and regrettably, there is a real fire.
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