Posts Tagged political bias

I love politics, In fact I was a political commentator for many years. But the point of TJWalker Interactive here at the blog and over on my YouTube channel is to discuss and analyze communication and speaking skills. Unfortunately, I find that, especially on YouTube, it’s impossible for some small-minded people to ever think past politics. So if I dare say candidate x made a bad speech today because his zipper was down and he forgot what he was going to say, I’m immediately besieged with angry emails accusing me of anti-x bias and having an ideology that is in contrast with what any decent human being could have. Then, I’m asked to “prove” that I’m not “biased” against “X,” which is another tiresome debate where the accuser can never be convinced.

I have grabbled with this dilemma for awhile. I want to be true to the nature of social media and let everyone have a voice. I don’t want to stifle anyone. I want to be responsive to people. But at some point, I lose control over why I started this blog if everything seems to be about politics and the casual visitor who comes in for the first time to TJWalker.com or Youtube.com/tjwalker and sees nothing but hate-filled invective thrown around and everything is about calling someone a Nazi or a communist or some such nonsense.

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