• ayyy
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    3 months ago

    Do you think this kind of rhetoric

    1. promotes unity or
    2. stokes divisiveness?
    • lennybird@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Read further down in other comments, but:

      • It’s important to identify the problem.
      • It’s important to identify the target audience of this piece.
      • The crowd that this article is referring to isn’t reading an editorial editorial piece from The Conversation.
      • This is thus mainly internal dialogue pointing to an example of the problem.
      • How we convey the problem to those ensared by it is a totally separate thing.
      • divisive for them; unifying for us, and helps the occasional apathetic bystander identify the bullshit before they themselves are ensared by it.