![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It is a notorious fact that the Monarchs of Europe and the Pope of Rome are at this very moment plotting our destruction and threatening the extinction of our political, civil, and religious institutions. public life, characterized by “heated exaggeration, suspiciousness, and conspiratorial fantasy.” He quoted a newspaper article by way of illustration. ![]() Hoftstadter attributed the elevation of Barry Goldwater by the GOP in the 1960s to “ the paranoid style in American politics.” Hofstadter called the paranoid style “an old and recurrent phenomenon” in U.S. In an area where there are very few shootings, they manage to turn any loud noise into a spiraling conspiracy about a gunfight that must have taken place just south of us, where nonwhite people live. “Stop by my office when you have a minute,” read the email from my boss, with the rather ominous-sounding subject line, “Your post on Next Door.” Since I often reply, “Racism” to the Nextdoor posts in my neighborhood asking things like, “What’s going on with this suspicious looking guy?” I figured my trolling days had finally come to an inauspicious end.įortunately, he just wanted to talk about how batshit crazy these people are. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |