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Originally Posted by DeltaboundRedux
For all the “Country X has Covid lockdown protests!!!” stories:
A particularly useful axiom to remember is “all politics are local”.
Trying to understand political action in a place like Rotterdam or Italy would be like trying to explain all the nuances of some recent high profile criminal cases to a foreigner. Pointless, really.
I’d use caution believing any source that slaps a charged headline and a picture of a crowd in a foreign country that ties it up nice and neatly.
(For those who fly to Amsterdam, you’ve a pretty good idea of some tiny part of the subtext the Rotterdam articles aren’t discussing. Infinitely more complex than “Covid lockdowns “).
Not saying the BBC doesn’t have any biases, but they tend to separate their opinions from the news better than most of the US media.
And the “all politics is local” meme is as simplistic as any other.
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