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Professor of Rhetoric and Communication, University of Waterloo, lover of democracy and profanity
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People still think there’s gonna be a free and fair election in 2026?
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Not that the book offers anything groundbreaking or new either, it's just a synthesis for first year students of the practical implications of basic research from communication studies.
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complex stuff. Also, it's rendered in the most impractical ways here. In Communication Studies, we actually have assignments and teach practical ways of using some of this. Of course, I also wrote an introductory book about how this applies to politics: www.routledge.com/Radically-Ci...
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a whole field of study. She has not discovered anything new. And its worse if this is what Harvard MBAs are learning. This is what my students learn in our 100 class in the first couple of weeks - it's the simplest, most basic shit they learn before we get to more
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The violence is gonna start sooner than we all think.
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This is why the media cannot put his press conferences on TV. We've never had a president that's just a propagandist and nothing more.
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No, you need to say you believe the government is good! This phrasing accepts their framing that it’s bad and needs reform.
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what the real work is or how to do it. I've come to believe that the left doesn't really want to even win, or has no interest in persuasion. They just want to be right about things not effective.
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it's right. But it's getting the fewest views and the least traction. When I write about Trump and what a disaster his rhetoric is, I get loads of views and loads of traction. It's as if we all want to pay attention to the car wreck that is Trump and we don't want to know
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And harmonious action across difference requires a certain degree of intellectual humility and moderation.