{"id":6872,"date":"2015-11-07T04:39:43","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T04:39:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/07\/biased-framing\/"},"modified":"2015-11-07T04:39:43","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T04:39:43","slug":"biased-framing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2015\/11\/07\/biased-framing\/","title":{"rendered":"Biased Framing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a> is an example:  <\/span><\/p>\n

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A Pew survey last year found that 75 percent of Republicans believed it is more important to "protect the right of Americans to own guns" than to "control gun ownership."<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

This way of framing the issue shows left-wing bias.  For it implies that Republicans are opposed to controlling gun ownership.  But that is not the case.  Almost everyone wants gun control laws some of which will regulate the acquisition and ownership of firearms.  Name me a Republican who thinks that felons should be allowed to purchase firearms.<\/span><\/p>\n

Either gun rights or gun control is a false alternative.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have said enough about this in other entries in such categories as Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The point, once again, is that language matters<\/a>.  He who controls the terms of the debate controls the debate.  You should always be on the lookout for linguistic mischief.  Liberals excel at it, but there are examples across the political spectrum.<\/span><\/p>\n

Part of my self-imposed task in these pages is to teach critical thinking.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Here is an example:   A Pew survey last year found that 75 percent of Republicans believed it is more important to "protect the right of Americans to own guns" than to "control gun ownership." This way of framing the issue shows left-wing bias.  For it implies that Republicans are opposed to controlling gun ownership. … Continue reading “Biased Framing”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6872\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}