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We'll never know what happened before the camera started rolling but it is of little consequence, she never should have boiled over that way.
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It's very much of consequence. To take a position that her actions excuse anything by others is to validate whatever manipulation may have taken place to obtain the recording. Once you've been worked a few times you learn to step back and look for the full picture. Unfortunately, it's not available to us so best to reserve final armchair judgement.
I think everyone agrees the family has issues. Where they begin and end is for them to work out.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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