QUOTATION # 69.

[AN AGE OF BIGOTS AND LIARS].

“These days……..a frothing torrent of errant nonsense emerges, sluice-like, from all the people who seek to run the world. 

…..infinitely…….sinister words and actions now go unpunished too.

When people peddle duplicitous or hateful speech, they’re responsible for their own actions, but there’s plenty of blame to go around for the social order that allows that speech to flourish. 

It doesn’t help that some political operators succeed by making their vileness a feature, not a bug, rendering them immune from scrutiny.”

BLACK STAR SERIES: ACGh/ yG, photograph; 1/10. 2004.

“It seems that bad faith actors, who once feared the censure and scorn of an observant press, now know that the 24-hour news cycle has diluted the impact of their vitriol to near homeopathic levels.

…….Serious-minded journalists attempting to shame………now seem like hapless substitute teachers, desperately trying to regain control of the class.”

UNTITLED: Kofi Setordji, 2017.

“……..The consequences of allowing these kinds of ideas to propagate, unanswered, in the public sphere, are not just rhetorical. 

…….It has been a boom year for bigots and liars, and we need to stop coddling those who think otherwise. 

……..If appealing to the decency of indecent people is the only weapon in our arsenal, then we must learn a few new tricks…….a new race of shameless supervillains is flourishing before our eyes.”

SÉAMAS O’REILLY.

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