Airbrushing Barbarity
The Warped Language of Public Policy
Richman, Sheldon
http://www.counterpunch.org/2013/07/08/airbrushing-barbarity/
Date Written: 2013-07-09
Publisher: Counter punch
Year Published: 2013
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX15140
Couching moral/political matters in technocratic language helps us forget the unpleasantness of the underlying incivility and brutality of political measures. Political discourse is fundamentally dishonest in that it airbrushes barbarity.
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