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An article on the rhetoric of the right - SilverFang01 - 08-30-2019
The author of this article draws a parallel between the arguments used by clowns like Ben Shapiro and those used by the antebellum South. How they are victims of censorship because they can no longer express themselves freely, and that pushes them into positions they “normally” would not hold.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/29/conservatives-say-weve-abandoned-reason-civility-old-south-said-that-too/
Quote:All of this is there in the reasonable right: The claim that they are the little people struggling against prevailing winds. The argument that they’re the ones championing reason and common sense. The allegation that their interlocutors aren’t so much wrong as excessive; they’re just trying to think freely and are being tormented. The reliance on hyperbole and slippery slopes to warn about their adversaries’ intentions and power. The depiction of their opponents as an “orthodoxy,” an epithet the antebellum South loved.