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43. "rhetorical" is not used as a comment but a question FYI

Mon May 18, 2015, 12:41 PM

May 2015

"I have no idea what the hell she is up to"

"Let's just say I know exactly what Warren has been up to"

There is nothing "rhetorical" in that, just confused and contradictory statements.

http://classroom.synonym.com/origin-phrase-speaking-truth-power-11676.html

"Talking truth to power" origins are either from a Quaker's book in 1955 on arguing for pacifism or some say it was first coined by "African-American civil rights leader Bayard Rustin's personal correspondence, Rustin states in a 1942 letter that the role of a religious group is to "speak the truth to power"

Nothing exclusionary about the phrase as "socialist". And if you really think the act of speaking up against those who hold greater power is "claptrap" then do you even support he idea of a free speech democracy?

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