James Finn
Mar 13, 2021

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Such a common impulse! To express distance rather than work for change.

There’s a term in formal rhetoric for this sort of distancing speech. I forget what the term is, but you see the behavior all the time. It’s not helpful.

#Whitelivesmatter is a similar example.

#FakeChristian is another.

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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