What: In this essay for New York Magazine's Intelligencer (news) section, Rebecca Traister examines how powerful men use language of extreme violence --- "lynching," "witch hunt," "mob," "guillotine," "beaten to death" --- when they are facing (generally mild) consequences or critiques for their actions.
It's infuriating and it's everywhere.
Representative quote: "This is the truly grotesque factor: It is power itself that renders people recognizable to us, affords them our sympathy and empathy; it’s power that makes them more likely to be believed when they tell us of the injustice they have suffered."
How to get it: The article was published on October 24.
Read more: Kate Harding (see List #66) has an upcoming book on this very subject - Victim Complex: On Snowflakes, Witch Hunts, and the Cult of Personal Responsibility.
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