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minus-squarefoggy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·edit-215 days agoI take special note in Stephen Miller repeatedly calling the protestors “insurrectionists”. It’s a total propaganda bitch slap to the stupid. “Remember when lots of angry people made one side mad and you learned the word insurrectionist? That’s how we use it now. Don’t look back.” I don’t know if this tactic has a name in rhetoric, but it is a cancer that seems to grow larger than the educated via the uneducated.
minus-squareHackworth@piefed.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·edit-215 days agoProbably a persuasive definition.
I take special note in Stephen Miller repeatedly calling the protestors “insurrectionists”.
It’s a total propaganda bitch slap to the stupid.
“Remember when lots of angry people made one side mad and you learned the word insurrectionist? That’s how we use it now. Don’t look back.”
I don’t know if this tactic has a name in rhetoric, but it is a cancer that seems to grow larger than the educated via the uneducated.
Probably a persuasive definition.