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| Subject: From the Age of Persuasion to the Age of Offense: How Words Make Things Happen Tue Dec 24, 2019 8:44 pm | |
| ... No one gets in trouble for saying that 2 + 2 is 5, or that people in Pittsburgh are ten feet tall. Such obviously false statements might be treated as jokes, or at worst as evidence of insanity, but they are not likely to make anyone mad. The statements that make people mad are the ones they worry might be believed. I suspect the statements that make people maddest are those they worry might be true.
https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/from-the-age-of-persuasion-to-the-age-of-offense/ |
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