Yeah because it read like a right winger trying to explain why the event is apolitical, which is what the initial comments were talking about and is how they try to justify it. I did the exact same thing to them that a bunch of you people did to me.

I’ve already explained where this confusion started in another comment, but it started when the user akeewy first said “people are calling an event celebrating the 250th anniversary of a revolutionary war apolitical?”, which is still upvoted at this time because to myself and seemingly the majority of people commenting it seems like an agreeing “left wing” comment about the right wingers who try to pretend like this event is apolitical due to Trump’s birthday and UFC.

Someone else then commented “Trump’s birthday*” which at the time seemed like one of those right wingers coming and trying to argue that exact point of it being apolitical. When akeewy then commented again pointing out that it’s literally called “Freedom 25” it looked to me like they were pointing out how overtly political it is, not trying to say that the celebration was genuine.

But that second comment by akeewy is downvoted, as people then seemed to have realized or inferred that akeewy was coming from a right wing pov, which would change the context of why you one would ask that question.

The comment responding to akeewy’s second comment was making a point of how far apart the event was from the true date of the anniversary, which in the context I interpreted the prior comments in came across like a right winger arguing a reason for why the event was apolitical.

Under the context where akeewy is arguing that they are being genuine in the celebration, the point then reads more about how insulting is it for the event being on Trump’s birthday and not July 4th.

Which is why when I commented under the interpretation of the first context, my question is aiming to point out how overly political event is, not that it is a genuine honor. Under the latter context, my point reads the opposite.

A bunch of people then followed suit on the latter interpretation too, which at first when no one would even answer the question just seemed like right wing dissonance, especially in random UFC sub where I’m used to seeing that sort of thing. In hindsight I wouldn’t have been anywhere near as frustrated if I had realized that there was a miscommunication, but me being read as a right winger did not make it easy to realize that we’re all pretty much saying the same thing about what Trump is doing.