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Comment author: clarissethorn 12 April 2009 06:39:18PM 3 points [-]

Presentation is endorsement, unless it's framed with disclaimers.

Let's return to the LGBTQ example. Consider the following potential sentences:

"Many people think of homosexuality as a sexual perversion. But there are ordinary, socially-accepted behaviors that seem partly homoerotic to me:"

Would you call that a neutral statement? Would you claim so passionately that it revealed no bias on the part of the person who said it?

Comment author: GuySrinivasan 12 April 2009 07:42:47PM 1 point [-]