• MarxMadness@lemmygrad.ml
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    3 months ago

    Bold isn’t the goal though, getting people to change their minds is the goal.

    This type of title sets us up to get lost in a semantic debate (is the incident a “massacre” or does a better word fit?) or argue a technicality (“no one died in the square itself”). These are the worst ways to convince people of anything: a skeptical person has endless outs, pinning down an objective answer to semantics is almost impossible, and by the time you get to more meaningful points you’ve wasted a lot of time, attention, and credibility.