to be honest, I didn't think that there was anything "petty" in what Silver was doing. And it certainly wasn't my intention.
I would hope that my participation in this thread would have made that clear.
It was my understanding that both of these dynamics had already taken place in this thread.
I'll elaborate.
First, the tweet broke down by geographic region.
South, NYC, West, Northeast, etc. We've been talking about that in this thread. State cases. NOLA cases. Washington. California. NYC.
What's the objection to the first tweet?
The second, I understand the objection a bit more - but I didn't see it as deliberately being inflammatory.
I didn't think that it was supposed to be a case of "Trump states are dumb and Clinton states are not."
I mean, he made it clear that NYC has the most cases and is increasing at an alarming amount. It's not as if he is hiding that fact or downplaying it. People like @HburgSaints made the comment as if he didn't make it clear that NYC was increasing in cases. He 100% was.
So I'm not sure why it was interpreted another way.
We've also talked in this thread about people who are more likely to brush off the dangers of the virus because they are buying into White House 'noise' versus what's coming from Fauci, for example.
That's been in this thread. Maybe it's been less explicit, but I've seen it - and I didn't see anyone objecting to it.
Now, I'm not going to defend the tweet as being necessary to the discussion if people really got rankled over it.
I'm fine taking the second one down.
I just didn't feel that it made the commentary that some people felt and, further, that it was somehow not in this thread prior.