Cecily’s Reviews > Unspeak: How Words Become Weapons, How Weapons Become a Message, and How That Message Becomes Reality > Status Update
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Very good, and at least as relevant in the days of global gaslighting, divisive populist rhetoric, false equivalents, straw men, and fake news as when it was written, 13 years ago. Even most of the examples are still relevant, though there are a few new ones I could add.
"An extremist is someone who rejects facts and holds on to opinions no matter what." Bill O'Reilly in 2005, of Fox News till 2017
Review to come...
— Oct 17, 2019 01:41PM
"An extremist is someone who rejects facts and holds on to opinions no matter what." Bill O'Reilly in 2005, of Fox News till 2017
Review to come...
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Words have power. This has detailed, exhaustively-referenced examples that were bang up-to-date in 2006 and are relevant to Brexit, Trump and more. Political and etymological history smuggled in sections that read as easily as newspaper articles. The one on ethnic cleansing and genocide was especially apt when there are fears the Kurds in Turkey and Syria are suffering the same fate
Updated review when I finish.
— Oct 15, 2019 02:45PM
Updated review when I finish.
