People often assume the rules aren’t being applied fairly. E.g., “if I (or my guy) had said \/ done something like that, the reaction would have been ____.” <\/p>\n
We all believe it’s true, and we all believe we see evidence of it all the time. But it’s a hard thing to be objective about, since (1) no two situations are precisely the same, and (2) there’s huge variation in the way things are treated that don’t seem to have anything to do with “sides.” <\/p>\n
The perception of unfair application of “the rules” might be true, or it might be confirmation bias. <\/p>\n
Having said that, I am confident that if Trump had claimed the U.S. has an obligation to defend Taiwan, the mainstream media would have gone into a minor frenzy. When Biden says it<\/a>, there’s not the same reaction. (The media is covering the story, but it’s not one of these “OMG can you believe this” things.) <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" People often assume the rules aren’t being applied fairly. E.g., “if I (or my guy) had said \/ done something like that, the reaction would have been ____.” We all believe it’s true, and we all believe we see evidence of it all the time. But it’s a hard thing to be objective about, since … Continue reading “Defending Taiwan: From the “if Trump had said it” file”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1796\/revisions\/1797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}