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siriuslll

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16. guilt is a foregone conclusion

Mon Mar 12, 2018, 12:11 PM

Mar 2018

There is a tactic of 'foregone concluding' that I see all the time on right-wing media. It is when the guilt of an individual is treated as fact before any kind of due process is able to occur. By the time there are actual findings, it doesn't matter if the person or party in question is exonerated. They have been 'guilty' for so long and anything other than that original foregone conclusion is an example of the system not working.

Hillary has escaped justice SO many times according to this tactic.

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