• cjoll4@lemmy.worldEnglish
    186·
    4 months ago

    The only “cherry picking” being done is by the writer of the headline. This Bible doesn’t include Amendments 11 - 27 (everything that came after the Bill of Rights). It’s not advertised to contain those amendments, either. It contains the original Constitution of the United States and it contains the Bill of Rights. The fact that the book description lists the Bill of Rights separately from the US Constitution logically implies that “US Constitution” doesn’t include its amendments in the context of the book’s contents.

    The headline suggests that two very specific amendments were omitted in such a way to evoke outrage and paint Trump in a bad light.

    I despise Donald Trump and would rather see him in prison than in the White House again, but propaganda is propaganda.

    • bane_killgrind@kbin.social
      65·
      4 months ago

      All I know is, if I show up at somebody’s house and tell them “this is your child” when I only have part of their child, they would not agree with me.

      • cjoll4@lemmy.worldEnglish
        75·
        4 months ago

        Well it’s a good thing we’re not talking about a human child, we’re talking about a body of text consisting of several distinct documents that were introduced over a span of more than two centuries. Context is tricky, I know.

      • Windex007@lemmy.worldEnglish
        42·
        4 months ago

        This is the level of nuance I heard from the TEA Party discussing their paychecks.

      • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
        2·
        4 months ago

        What shitty logic is this?

        If the coroner shows recognizable body parts to parents… You think the parent doesn’t recognize and notify the coroner of that fact?

        “Yes, I recognize that birthmark. That torso is my daughter.”

        or

        “No, that’s just a torso, that isn’t Billy!”

        How far does this go? Billy cut his pinky off… It’s no longer Billy! That must be some new kid I’ve never seen before. Let’s call him Bill!