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?
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Eric Blair
in reply to Eric Blair • • •Here’s more on the Rhetoric of Reaction.
(Thanks to @drvolts
for turning me on to it and Perversity, Futility, Jeopardy. Once I learned about it, I now see it regularly.)
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rh…
book by Albert O. Hirschman
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