So I get to work today to find a Daily Mail article printed out for me to read.
"PINT-SIZED NAPOLEON SHOULD BE CUT DOWN TO SIZE"
I've found a link that's not the Daily Mail, so you don't have to visit their website, but I can't be held to blame for your blood pressure:
Basically it's Dominic Sandbrook's recollections about when he was a teacher and had a meal with the French teacher who revealed the French will always hate us, claims Macron hates us and we don't need the French because we didn't need them in WWII.
Here's a piece about the article:
It criticises Sandbrook for rewriting history but only because soldiers went to fight for King and Country, rather than against Hitler.
The article then goes on to quote several veterans of WWII and how they resent the country they fought for, but a lot of their reasons seem like Mail-fuelled rants rather than factual observations ("People come here, get everything they ask, for free, laughing at our expense").
There are many good reasons why people voted Leave, and heaven knows the Remain team did a piss-poor job of explaining the benefits for staying, plus the Leave team outright lied (on buses) and it's hard to compete with that, but articles like this really upset me because it's just button-pushing.
Every time somebody reads the Daily Mail, it feeds the fear.
Words are so powerful and they way the article is constructed is particularly clever at praising us and demeaning others.
The guy who printed it out voted Leave and I just want an honest conversation about how these things nudge his world view, but he won't listen.
On a side note, he had to print it at home because we banned access to The Daily Mail website at work, claiming it triggered the web filter's "hate" words.
"PINT-SIZED NAPOLEON SHOULD BE CUT DOWN TO SIZE"
I've found a link that's not the Daily Mail, so you don't have to visit their website, but I can't be held to blame for your blood pressure:
Basically it's Dominic Sandbrook's recollections about when he was a teacher and had a meal with the French teacher who revealed the French will always hate us, claims Macron hates us and we don't need the French because we didn't need them in WWII.
Here's a piece about the article:
It criticises Sandbrook for rewriting history but only because soldiers went to fight for King and Country, rather than against Hitler.
The article then goes on to quote several veterans of WWII and how they resent the country they fought for, but a lot of their reasons seem like Mail-fuelled rants rather than factual observations ("People come here, get everything they ask, for free, laughing at our expense").
There are many good reasons why people voted Leave, and heaven knows the Remain team did a piss-poor job of explaining the benefits for staying, plus the Leave team outright lied (on buses) and it's hard to compete with that, but articles like this really upset me because it's just button-pushing.
Every time somebody reads the Daily Mail, it feeds the fear.
Words are so powerful and they way the article is constructed is particularly clever at praising us and demeaning others.
The guy who printed it out voted Leave and I just want an honest conversation about how these things nudge his world view, but he won't listen.
On a side note, he had to print it at home because we banned access to The Daily Mail website at work, claiming it triggered the web filter's "hate" words.
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