RE: Paul Joseph Watson Is On A Roll
Agastya said:
Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I gather Britain First has an absolutely awful reputation in England, something like what the KKK has in the states. Him retweeting this may very well be bad optics.
Bad optics, for the record, absolutely are a thing. Some examples of bad optics include:
Unfuckable trailer trash marching around with tiki torches and screaming "Jew will not replace us".
Mike Brown's mother telling a crowd of black people to burn entire neighborhoods to the ground.
Hillary Clinton laughing after Gadaffi got sodomized by a bayonet.
All of which are things that alienated millions of normal people to the causes associated with each event. The events I listed above all heavily damaged the reputation of the Alt Right, BLM, and the Clinton campaign, and only serve to further divide and degrade the country. People shouldn't completely pander to political opinions, obviously, but they should be cognizant of how their actions look.
Donald Trump is not Hilary Clinton, nor is he Mike Brown's mother. How many times have we heard news stories that Trump has made some unforgiveable statement from which he will never recover?
Remember when he announced his presisdency and the media midpresented his speech as "All Mexicans are rapists and drug dealers?" That was the end of his presidential campaign apparantly. In reality, all it did was to cause some people to look up the facts and find out the truth that, "Holy shit! Look at the rape and drug offending statistics of illegal immigrants compared to all other groups." The Trump train was born.
Then he committed the sin of calling Elizabeth Warren Pocahontus, a sin from which he would not recover. People looked up the facts and found out, "Holy shit! Did you know that this prominent senator once pretended to be an Indian to get a cushy job?" A few more people joined the Trump train.
Then the pussy grabbing tapes came out. Surely that was the end. The people looked it up. "Holy shit! Look at the sexual misconduct allegations against the husband of his opponent. That's nothing compared to a little locker room talk." A few more joined the Trump train.
Then he made some comment about attacks which happened in Sweden the night before, and everyone guffawed because there was no Swedish attacks reported in the media. So people looked it up. "Holy shit! It looks like there were riots and cars set on fire last night in Gothenberg, and there are on a regular basis. Turns out he is right." And a few more took their seat on the Trump train.
Now he retweets some videos from a controversial group in UK. What will the response be? Do you really think this will hurt him? Of course not. People will look it up and discover, "Holy shit! Muslim attacks across Europe are a common and increasingly common occurance, and the same thing could happen here if we don't do something about it now." And a few more people will join the Trump train.
With Trump there is no such thing as bad optics, at least not so far. He is simply laying out the facts, making a case, and allowing people to discover the truth for themselves.
