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Politics : For the Sake of Clarity and Meaning
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From: redfish3/11/2005 11:02:53 AM
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One of the code words I hate is when someone says other people need to be "educated."

For example: "Some people may be against gay marriage, but only because they haven't been educated about it"

What they are really doing is saying "if you disagree with my opinion on the subject, it is only because you are ignorant."

Here is Dick Cheney using that tactic re social security:

"The notion that you can lay out something this important, this complicated, that touches hundreds of millions of people and then go take a poll and say, `Oops! Sorry, we're going to stop' makes no sense at all," he said. "A poll's a snapshot in time. We're involved in a major educational effort here."

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So if people disagree with their proposal, it is because they are insufficiently educated to understand it, not because the proposal lacks merit.

Yeah, right.
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