Bias?

June 9, 2020

Twitter had the audacity to fact check the President, who spews lies every day all day long, 18,000 and counting according to The Washington Post. Trump immediately responded, claiming that the technology sector has a liberal bias. He has threatened to use executive powers that he does not have in retaliation.

He wants to go after Twitter, Facebook, Google, Apple, and Microsoft among others. That is a lot of well-educated, young people from all over the world, who are apparently conspiring on their social media accounts to undermine the President. We already know about the biased media, which is populated by a lot of highly-educated, progressive young people from all over the world. We might as well throw in the liberally-biased universities, which are populated by, you guessed it, the most educated people from all over the world. Hollywood and the entertainment industry, known for its liberal bias, is populated by smart, creative people from all over the world. Well-educated doctors and nurses on the front lines of the pandemic must think he is less than useful idiot.

Is this liberal bias, or is it just possible that some of the most educated people in the world with a modern, progressive, international perspective, might be correct? I know that sounds like the worst form of elitism, but it is not a liberal bias if you are, in fact, correct. People go to school not to be indoctrinated in a liberal conspiracy. They go to school to develop a wider perspective, to be exposed to alternative thinking, and to develop the skills to be able tell fact from fiction. The march of history has a liberal bias. Conservatives are constantly fighting the inevitable. That’s conservative bias. Conservatives today are just now figuring out what progressives figured out fifty years ago.