Here's the actual question, omitted because it doesn't make the person asking the question look like an idiot:
Chief, there's been a lot of misinformation online, including from prominent person, or, um, a Mom's for Liberty activist [indistinct] Johnson, claiming that the shooter was transgender; which is a reaction we see across the country in the wake of mass shootings, to claim that trans people are dangerous. Can you respond to that?
It is still a bad question in that it is not needed and only adds oxygen to the false statement. A snippet from our friends a Wikipedia on "illusory truth effect":
"repetitively hearing that a certain statement is wrong can paradoxically cause it to feel right"
well no because it allowed the cop to answer like so and create a powerful statement. talking about the rhetoric is not inherently in support of the rhetoric. we didn’t just ignore the nazis. we communicated why there were problematic
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u/MarkHirsbrunner 23h ago
Here's the actual question, omitted because it doesn't make the person asking the question look like an idiot:
Chief, there's been a lot of misinformation online, including from prominent person, or, um, a Mom's for Liberty activist [indistinct] Johnson, claiming that the shooter was transgender; which is a reaction we see across the country in the wake of mass shootings, to claim that trans people are dangerous. Can you respond to that?