Cory Doctorow on Nostr: It's good for American schoolkids to learn about the use of these blood libels to ...
It's good for American schoolkids to learn about the use of these blood libels to excuse genocide, but these pamphlets are a *slog*. Even with glossaries in the textbooks, it's a slow, word-by-word matter to parse these out. I can't imagine anyone learning a single thing about how speech persuades people just by reading that text.
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