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reading the Canceling of the American Mind and the intro outlines how both the political left + right have built rhetorical defenses that avoid actual debate. the left’s: complex, layering personal attacks to block any criticism the right’s: simpler, dismissing experts, journalists and Trump critics both rely on what the authors dub "The Great Untruth of Ad Hominem,” which is that “bad people only have bad opinions.” we see this happening across the board with the H1B debate: calling someone a billionaire, big tech, indian, white, MAGA, second generation, etc. to refute their points. society as a whole argues for power and status using identity politics. seemingly everyone is guilty.
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It's almost as if the political arena itself lives in these "suitcase words" that make vague and generalized group judgments. Suitcase words, by themselves, can be used poorly or respectably. Suitcase words reference something that has specific contextual packaging for the underlying assumptions. Its short hand. But not knowing the context is just as damaging as knowing it. In other words, dammed if you do, dammed if you don't. I have a rule for myself when it comes to these indistinct, and vague "suitcase words" as I am calling them. And that is if I am going to use them, I must use them in a way that unfolds and explains my assumptions so that it is digestible by the ears of those generally outside my disposition. In my estimation, if you don't... You WILL be misunderstood, and you will further divide the classes. This is not only true generally in class and economic perspective, but from cultural and relationship perspective.
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