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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Chaya is ridiculous and awful but objectively in that interview she comes across smarter and better prepared than Taylor. I am surprised you linked it, OP. It is Taylor who looks awful. [/quote]

When Taylor asked Chaya why she felt trans people were "dangerous", Chaya could only respond with "it's a lie".  If Chaya can't even defend her positions to basic questions, how is coming across as smarter or better prepared than Taylor?  [/quote]

I don’t know, that bit just felt like useless grandstanding responding to useless grandstanding. In contrast, Taylor’s lack of preparation with respect to the books was pretty bad. Tayor didn’t know them, hadn’t looked at them, and came across as wildly unprepared.

So I think Chaya was not that great at handling the questions that looked overtly like ideological traps, but Taylor looked unprepared for actual facts and hard examples. Overall that means Taylor comes across a lot worse.

Obviously people can disagree but I don’t understand why liberal social media commentators are circulating this. It comes across as desperate and just promotes Chaya as sounding like the rational and fact-based one. To people outside of the extreme progressive online bubble who actually watch the interview, Chaya sounds level-headed and prepared with facts that Taylor couldn’t refute.

But, to be fair, I think a lot of the audience for the liberal social media commentators don’t expect their followers to actually watch the interview, so they are probably just building their own brands. [/quote]

I'm curious how you think asking someone to defend what they believe is considered "grandstanding"?  After all, Chaya has made no secret of her hatred of the LGBTQ+ community, so she should have no problem providing clear and concise answers that demonstrate her point.

As for the book, Taylor was asking Chaya why she was so against these books and Chaya, and Chaya asked if she read these.  I actually think Taylor gave a pretty nuanced response on why sex education is important, and Chaya's response was to lie and say that books like Gender Queer are being passed out to elementary school students.  It's not.   [/quote]

With respect to your first point, you see it as asking someone to defend what they believe because you think that belief you’ve ascribed to Chaya is accepted fact. But to a viewer without hardened, pre-set opinions like you, Taylor’s question comes across as a “so, when did you stop beating your wife?” kind of question. Taylor didn’t do what good interviewers do, and establish a hard factual basis to show that it’s reasonable to ask the question. Taylor [i]could[/i] have done that, with even some basic journalist work. She could have methodically used a lot of actual evidence (screenshots, clips videos of interviews of people who were shown on Chaya’s channels, etc.) and then asked Chaya that question.

But Taylor didn’t. And therefore, the question comes across as lazy, attacking interviewing, and therefore easily dismissible, which is exactly what Chaya did. Chaya’s response wasn’t sophisticated — I think it’s clear she’s had almost no media training — but to a viewer who comes to the interview without hardened opinions of Chaya, her instinctive response to a “when did you stop beating your wife” question comes across as genuine and honest. Nobody likes to be attacked by questions that are ideological grandstanding with no supporting evidence provided and Chaya’s lack of sophistication in her answer is something that general audiences relate to, not criticize.

On the second point, it was obvious that Taylor had never even looked at the books in question, while Chaya knew them in detail. That made Taylor look very unprepared. She did try to scramble to put together a response about why sex education is important, but again, she was weak on the facts because Chaya knew the books themselves much better.

All in all I find the idea that this interview was a win for Taylor and her “side” to be a symptom of the extreme bubble that exists online with the progressive left. A neutral observer would never classify this interview as a win for Taylor.

To be clear, I do not like Chaya or her channels at all. But I see this as neutral to Chaya at best and probably validates her and raises her profile. Taylor essentially just made Chaya look good. [/quote]

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