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Here's what I'm watching, and it might be a difference between someone who is trained in persuasion versus people who are not. The way reality is being presented to you is that there are events that happen in the world and then people look at those events and they form opinions. That's how the world is presented to you. That's how the news organizations present it to you. It's how you probably ima…
← Previous segment →Now how does that really make a difference in the real world? What I'm watching is that the opinion makers are changing the events to turn you into the belief — and now I'm going to say "you" in this case is the anti-Trumpers, so I'm talking about the anti-Trump part of the world — to believe that the president is a racist. And to believe, here's the key part, to believe it's their own opinion. And that they believe their opinion that the president is a big old racist is because they think they've seen facts and events and formed an opinion.
Nothing like that has happened. Nothing like that. What happened was they watched people who assign them their opinion about something that was complicated. They're not really the expert on it. They don't know all the context. But they see all these smart people that are on the channel that they watch, the people who usually agree with them, and they say, "Well, if these people think it's bad, must be bad. That's my opinion."
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I'm going to take you through some hypothetical situations in which imagine that the stories about the president were reported just factually. Just factually. Take for example, let's go all the way back to the housing discrimination story from the '70s. Here's a factual way to report that. We don't know what President Trump, then citizen Trump, was thinking or whether he was involved in any of th…
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