When my youngest child was four, he had white running shoes that had a tiny blue stripe about a centimeter long on the sides. He called those shoes his “blue” shoes. Perspective is everything, isn’t it? Whereas I saw the shoes as white because they were all white except for those little blue stripes, he saw the little blue stipe as the identifying characteristic of those little shoes. But it isn’t just little kids who identify the whole by a part.
Hate groups think in synecdoches. So do angry people. So do partisans.
I don’t think I need to give examples if you have been paying attention to current events.
Hate groups think in synecdoches. So do angry people. So do partisans.
I don’t think I need to give examples if you have been paying attention to current events.
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