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McCarthy was also a master of telling an endless flow of little lies to sow doubt and distrust and play on peoples' emotions. For him discourse was a tool of exploitation. That is, language was to be used not for clarification and increased understanding, but for accusation, distortion, misrepresentation, denunciation, defamation-in any number of ways to obfuscate and confuse and by so doing to engender and inflame feelings of hate and anger...
Last year among several egregious examples of distortion and misrepresentation designed to magnify indignation and sow distrust (I cite only two or three examples of a possible many) was the University's alleged "expansion." No attempt was made to understand or accurately report the University's building needs, activities or plans. These are many and complicated, but to our new critics, quite obviously, we were simply ruthlessly and senselessly exploiting the poor and the oppressed. The word "expansion" was then seized on as a slogan and chanted again and again in mindless fashion to confuse and defame, and beyond this...
McCarthy was also a master of telling an endless flow of little lies to sow doubt and distrust and play on peoples' emotions. For him discourse was a tool of exploitation. That is, language was to be used not for clarification and increased understanding, but for accusation, distortion, misrepresentation, denunciation, defamation- in any number of ways to obfuscate and confuse and by so doing to engender and inflame feelings of hate and anger...
Last year among several egregious examples of distortion and misrepresentation designed to magnify indignation and sow distrust (I cite only two or three examples of a possible many) was the University's alleged "expansion." No attempt was made to understand or accurately report the University's building needs, activities or plans. These are many and complicated, but to our new critics, quite obviously, we were
Pusey warned that extremist radicals, and the mindless "self-styled moderates" who back them up, are using distortion and misrepresentation designed to magnify indignation and sow distrust." From this, Pusey has sadly come to see that what moves student politics is the drunken aura of power. That greatest scourge of academia, popular anti-intellectualism, is again, as in the time of Joe McGarthy, panting and slobbering. Most frightening of all, it is coming not from smelly old Washington, but from "in our midst...