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[–] [email protected] 58 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

When someone robs your house, you blame the robbers. When the police refuse to do anything about it and you get robbed again by the same person 4 years later, you blame the police.

[–] [email protected] 62 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I blame the robbers for robbing my house and the police for not doing their jobs. I don't blame the police for robbing my house.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 19 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That's not how you phrased it, though.

If that was the point, then simply adding "as well" or "too" at the end makes that clear. Without it, it frames it as if the blame is being shifted instead.

When someone robs your house, you blame the robbers. When the police refuse to do anything about it and you get robbed again by the same person 4 years later, you blame the police, too.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I think most people reading it understood that was their point though.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 weeks ago

Maybe. Maybe not. Because it's not explicit, then you're expecting people to fill in the blank. I'd say there's more of an argument that most people did not make that assumption.