This is a pedestal-worthy example of the Rhetoric of Reaction. It’s Jeopardy: the idea that doing something will endanger other goals. #rhetoric #reactionary #conservatives
The #NYTimes is making a rightwing argument— making a prototypical rightwing argument. Do you think the editors know that?
Eric Blair
in reply to Eric Blair • • •(Thanks to @drvolts
for turning me on to it and Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy. Once I learned about it, I now see it regularly.)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rhetoric_of_Reaction
book by Albert O. Hirschman
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