Thursday, June 16, 2016

The Simptemology of Misrepresentation

There are at least two ways to accurately quote what someone has written, the honest way which cites and accurately represents what it said without distortion and the typically ideological way of clipping it closely to distort what it meant for reasons of misrepresenting it.  You can further distinguish between those dishonest uses of it to merely use the quote to appear to support your point or to misrepresent it to try to discredit what was said.   Guess which one is filling up my pending comments box tonight. 

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