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Rev. Al Sharpton speaks on the death of Nolan Xavier Wells #shorts95%

7/11/2026, 1:53:58 AM

Topics: Video
Keywords: Youtube

BS Summary: This video contains 15 faulty reasoning types, including Negativity Bias, Begging the Question, and False Dilemma, with Confirmation Bias as the most egregious example at 65.8% saturation with 123 hits. Analysis detected 687 faulty-reasoning hits from 175 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 92.5% and a BS Rank of 95% (826 of 14,081 videos). This video is worse (more manipulative) than 94.10% of the video peer group.

Rev. Al Sharpton speaks on the death of Nolan Xavier Wells #shorts 
He was one black with three young white men who happened to end up with his phone, happened to end up with his keys. 
There There's just too many questions that they should not be closing the investigation. 
Now, I'm from Brooklyn. So, I'm a little different than some of y'all. I was built different. 
My nose is out here. My eyes are here. My brain is here, which means some things I can smell before I could see and before I can figure out. This does not smell right. 
So, some people are saying, "Reverend, are y'all bringing in race?" 
Well, we're not bringing in race, but we're not discounting race, either. Cuz we don't know what it is. So, to tell us don't rush to judgment saying it was racist is fine. But then I'm telling you don't rush to judgment saying it was not racism. Because we do not know. We do know what these parents are being told and what the parents have now shared with us does not make sense. 
Confirmation Bias
65.8%
Anchoring Bias
0%
Availability Heuristic
12.8%
Representativeness Heuristic
0%
Hindsight Bias
0%
Overconfidence Bias
18.7%
Framing Effect
6.4%
Loss Aversion
0%
Status Quo Bias
0%
Sunk Cost Effect
0%
Optimism Bias
0%
Pessimism Bias
0%
Negativity Bias
59.9%
Self-Serving Bias
9.1%
Fundamental Attribution Error
0%
Actor-Observer Bias
0%
In-Group Bias
9.1%
Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%
Halo Effect
0%
Horn Effect
0%
Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%
Recency Bias
0%
Primacy Effect
0%
Blind-Spot Bias
0%
Ad Hominem
0%
Straw Man
5.9%
Appeal to Authority
9.1%
False Dilemma
39.6%
Slippery Slope
0%
Circular Reasoning
0%
Hasty Generalization
12.8%
Red Herring
0%
Bandwagon
0%
Appeal to Emotion
39.6%
Begging the Question
47.1%
Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%
Tu Quoque
0%
Burden of Proof
0%
Appeal to Nature
0%
Composition/Division
0%
Anecdotal
12.8%
No True Scotsman
0%
Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%
Gambler’s Fallacy
0%
Middle Ground
0%
Personal Incredulity
18.7%
Special Pleading
0%
Genetic Fallacy
0%
Unattributed Quote
0%
Quote-first Misdirection
0%
Biased Writer Voice
0%
Indoctrination
0%
Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%
Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%
Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%

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