You keep assuming I believe the crowd booing were “leftists”. I never said that and it’s completely beside the point.
I see confusion is still in the driver seat of this exchange. You've now misread my post (I clarified the misunderstanding in it - did not reiterate it).
Re: complaint on the use of 'MAGAt'
The point I have been making is that it is sad that leftists around the world assume they were booing Trump.
A recent interest of mine has been the weaponisation and widespread use of 'woke', 'liberals', 'antifa' etc. Channelling MAGA's energy I jumped aboard -- referring to 'MAGA Trumpers' as MAGAts. Low and behold the pot called the kettle black. MAGAt was (correctly) recognised as childish.
The message appears to have been missed; evident as you continue to reduce everyone critical of Trump or the MAGA movement to a 'leftist'. See Political Reductionism:
Political reductionism is the oversimplification of complex political issues by reducing them to a single cause or a few parts, such as focusing only on individual voters, race, or class. This approach fails to account for the full complexity of political phenomena and can lead to inaccurate conclusions. It is a common tendency used across the political spectrum to simplify analysis, but it risks dismissing or ignoring other contributing factors.
Your main point:
"Leftists around the world assume [Perth] were booing Trump".
- 'Leftists', referring to ...?
- Left-aligned media? People that watch left-aligned media?
- People on reddit ? People criticising MAGA on right-aligned social media such as twitter? People critical of ICE? Pro-healthcare? Anti-oligarchy etc.
- Any/all of Democratic, Democratic-Socialist, Socialist, Communist? Note left-right is a political spectrum.
- Ex-Republicans and/or Republicans critical of Trump? Those fully opposed to Trump?
2. What are you basing the actual idea off? Media articles? A social media page?
In terms of media there's no basis for this claim. All Australian articles i've seen (+2 UK, +1 US) are titled "Australian's boo US anthem" or similar. Even for left-leaning media organisations I am yet to see any pattern of stating (or implying) that Australian's were instead booing Trump. This appears to suggest you have come to this belief again without consulting the available information. I don't believe you are doing this intentionally per se but see
Motivated reasoning.
Motivated reasoning is defined as the process by which individuals distort incoming information to align with their prior beliefs, often driven by a conflict between the motivation for accuracy and the desire to reach preferred conclusions.
Re: clarifying my view on Perth crowd booing
The WWE incident was raised in response to a post implying MAGA 'were hiding in the shadows' in Australia. Clearly no one can judge whether Perth fans booed i) the country (due to Trump admin perception), ii) the action (decision to sing the US anthem in foreign country), or iii) a combination of both.
the answer to these sorts of questions is almost always iii).
Why raise it at all? It really was just a side piece - the election was the more meaningful example. Nonetheless, it still shows Australians don't care to disrespect the US of A. The 2 main assumptions I made were: 1. Large majority of Perth attendees booed, and 2. if Australia had a strong Trump base hiding in the shadows, this would not have been the case. Sort of a pointless / unfalsifiable argument anyways. I've been more interested in the subsequent discussion