b!X Frankonis
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But that’s my point about just joking: There is something that you’re sort of floating. And if they welcome it, if they embrace it, you’re not going to defend yourself by saying you were just joking. You’re opening the door to assimilate that idea and take it further than how you floated it. If he comes back and says he’s just joking, that’s not all that’s happening. He’s floating an idea that, if enough people embrace it, the doors open to actually assimilate the idea: Armed revolt or assassination, whatever idea he’s floating, you’re trying to open the door for people in the in-group to assimilate that idea.
Jason Steed Doesn’t Think Trump Was ‘Just Joking’
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The ‘Persuasion Technique’ of Normalizing Violence
Maybe Ask the D*lbert Doofus About This
I sort of wish that Rob Harvilla over in The Ringer had asked Scott Adams about this. That interview seems like it would have been a good place maybe to challenge him on the degree to which all his weird, obsessive defense* of Trump only helps the candidate’s normalization of violent rhetoric. Ask him, perhaps, about what Tara Culp-Ressler over at ThinkProgress suggests is “stochastic terrorism”. Adams spends so much time in “well, actually”ing people about Trump’s “persuasion technique” he seems either oblivious to or uninterested in the fact of his own complicity.
Trump, Dilbert, Wizards, Fear, and Testosterone
Scott Adams is the presidential election’s weirdest, most provocative pundit. And it’s only gonna get weirder.theringer.com
Scott Adams is the presidential election’s weirdest, most provocative pundit. And it’s only gonna get weirder.theringer.com
The Rhetorical Tool That Allows Trump To Incite Violence Without ‘Inciting Violence’
He’s not joking. He’s using a tactic that we should take seriously.thinkprogress.org
He’s not joking. He’s using a tactic that we should take seriously.thinkprogress.org
*(I’m aware of the vague irony here, but I’m not obsessive about it and in that case I thought the inherent risk of a lack of value in pack journalism worth pointing out.)
