"Groomers"
CW: child sexual abuse, homophobia, transphobia.
"I'm not trying to ban any books. I'm trying to stop an indoctrination campaign against kids. Any person in this county that has children knows full well what I'm talking about" (SC Senator Josh Kimbrell, emphasis mine).
“When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases… one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker’s spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them” (George Orwell, Politics and the English Language).
“We protect our minds by an elaborate system of abstractions, ambiguities, metaphors and similes from the reality we do not wish to know too clearly; we lie to ourselves, in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with …
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