But, But – It’s Only Rhetoric! (… Right?)

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“It’s only rhetoric meant to energize the base”.

How often have we been hearing this excuse, this self-serving justification to diminish the terrible impact that words and symbols can have on all of us?

How often those demagogues likewise use profusely such a justification, such a cynical excuse, to detach themselves from any responsibility their violent words and imagery act…

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