The reason why accusations are often confessions is because we see the world the way we are. Jan Crawford likes Christian nationalism, but can’t admit this openly. So she, like “Tommy,” projects her desire for racial theocracy onto El Sayed.

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“Tommy” was only cosplaying as an ordinary Everyman. In fact, he was an astroturf Everyman:

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Anyway, “Tommy” turns out to have been engaging in a case of projection. Here he is, when El Sayed flipped the framework, disavowing any allegiances to Christian fundamentalism. But it turns out…

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Sometimes when a listener believes there is nefarious intent, every linguistic cue becomes cause for suspicion: they spoke too long, they spoke too short, they spoke too fast, they spoke too slow, they paused too long, they didn’t pause long enough…

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I need you to all understand just how much racism, sexism and other biases shapes how people hear tone, framing, and affective stance in other people’s language: if you ever hear someone’s speech being described with affective language (“angry,” “diatribe,” etc) NEVER take that at face values

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