The State of Political Discourse - A Guide to Fenno's Paradox

I've come back to this video every couple months or so for the last 2 years. It's still entirely accurate.

Fuck Bob

Can someone explain what the vid is about

I can easily explain the Bee/Barr contradiction (I only named bee first to not make it read "Barbie"):
1 - They were fired/not fired by a company, not trialed and sentenced or declared not guilty by a court of law.
2 - A company can hire/fire anyone, as long as it doesn't violate any contractual obligations.
2a - What Barr/ABC negotiated is far beyond my knowledge/interest, but as long as there was no "don't post racial slurs on social-media clause", Mrs. Barr was probably compensated, but again, no clue.
3 - A business could in theory hire the most despicable person, to replace the most beloved person, but most likely they will just do whatever is most opportune.
4 - Barr was at Abc (= Disney), Bee was at TBS (=Warner) so even if it seems like differing punishment for the same incident, they are actually completely seperate events.

So in conclusion it might be unfair, but it is not unjust, since it was not a matter of justice.Although I would consider it pretty understandable that a media company(that lives of publicity) would want to get rid of someone(representing them) who publicly calls an african american woman a monkey.

We see it on both sides, the left are just more blatantly obvious. Everybody is a hypocrite.

Now I’m a liberal, not a conservative, but I think we can agree that people shouldn’t bully someone for what they believe in

I think the gridlock of the two party state gives birth to this type of disrepectfull behaviour instead of speaking policy and building nuanced plans for the future, which should be the goal of politics.. instead america have black and white solution for alot of difficult intriquete problems.. The united states need to reform the electorate system!

Trump heckles peopel too.. but the left is complete intolerant of people having a different opinion..

I am shocked at the myopic way you lay the destruction of decency and respect in political discourse at the feet of Democrats. (Whom you impolitely by the way refer to as "The Left").
Have you not seen how indecent Trump is? How he refers to his opponents? How the first thing when he is going to have an adversary, is to come up with a mocking nickname? Sleepy Joe? Pocahontas? Crooked Hillary? Little Marco? How he mocks women?
Who started the racist birtherism trying to delegitimize Barak Obama as a Non-American? What about the Republicans famous racist dog whistle? Reagan and his Welfare Queens, totally made up?
I agree with your comment about the deterioration of our political discourse; but if you are as biased as that, sir, you are simply part of the problem.

Thank Hollywood for dumbing down society...

Take away the background dingeling please.

Very biased reporting. I'm not even a liberal but this is bullshit.

Samantha B. V Rosanne. Ok, let's look at it.

One person questioned Trump's immigration practices but was respectful. She even called Ivanka's child beautiful. This was done for POLITICAL GAIN, even if the forum or political gain she wanted was inappropriate.

The other threw racial slurs. This was done in the name of disrespect. This was pure "incivility", as you say yourself. No way around that.

"It is almost unquestionable that the incivility used by the left to demonize it's political opposition attributed to the rise of trumps incivility that the left so often protests."

EXACTLY THIS! I struggled with allowing myself to get out of character whilst under scrutiny. IN THE SECOND FUCKING GRADE THAT IS. Is it too much to ask for a president with some DIGNITY? I'm not even liberal but c'mon.

Dammit.... I lowkey didn’t understand/ get this video :(

Ben is right

I don't care if you are a Democrat, Republican, Black, White , Yellow or even from this planet. When you try and push your beliefs and agenda on me in the public forum such as award shows/paid advertisements and you NIKE . I'm no longer your fan , your consumer, you are dead to me. I am one of people in the target demographic with buying power. If you want to keep your money and paying fans, keep your politics and religion to your self. Deniro and Tom Hanks and their Leftist rants assured no more box office cash from me..

It’s honestly sad..

Yay it’s the left

Epic fail video. Let the left have their award shows where they shout "Orange man bad!" Trump won the presidency and he throws himself a rally every week where he vamps on the vilest shit he can think of for two hours then gets McDonalds on the way back to Air Force One. So don't worry too much about the left while Trump is busy winning, ok?

How can you have this conversation without talking about the source at the top? This has been a growing problem across the political spectrum, and Trump has taken it to a level never seen before. He has single handedly caused the huge surge in lack of civility by his own lack of character. He is a horrible human being and we all know it, he pretends to be a republican and they all fall for it. And to call oneself a Christian and abide by his behavior is mind-boggling. This is a popularity contest to him.

Diniro is a punk

The right is still searching for reasons as to why being white is bad and why it’s okay to kill babies. Why is that?

This video is underrated, but sadly power = attention. Nowadays it seems like the loudness, aggressiveness and tone of the speaker, as a sort of demonstration of 'bravery', are regarded as more important indicators of decency, quality and righteousness (and therefore power) than the quality of the reasoning and logic, the respectful, civilized expression of criticism, considering different points of view.What many people don't realise it that wanting to fight for good or believing to be benevolent and in pursuit of good doesn't justify using morally wrong methods. The ends does not usually justify the means (except for maybe killing Hitler or something?), especially when the ends don't actually end up helping. If you fight fire with fire then you only make the fire more powerful!

Bias man

Everyone needs to see this!!

So what is moral

Rep Gutierrez moral grandstanding against Kirstjen Nielsen was sickening. He doesn’t seem like he cares about the child that died but cares more about humiliating Neilsen.

This is so on point and yet I think that discourse devolves frequently on both sides conservative and liberals, I wish people would try to stick with facts, stay civil, stop stereotyping, stop assuming they know other individuals, stop name-calling, stop being negative, and actually be tolerant. I realized though studying Carl Jung, and Neitzsch that not everyone realizes there unconscious, their own dark nature. If people recognized it they wouldn’t have so much time on their hands to be judging others.

Can you start putting in the songs you use in your vidoes? Its partly why i like watching.

De Niro: Angry senile old man ranting.

Deniro is a POS! I will never go to a Theater to support these Liberal Jerks and give them a penny of my money ever again. BOYCOTT HOLLYWOOD! BOYCOTT DENIRO!

100% accurate