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In reply to the discussion: Anyone catch George Lakoff just now? [View all]Cha
(319,168 posts)everything is great 'cause he inherited President Obama's "disaster".
And, what Lakoff said.. I've tried to follow this..
Linguist George Lakoff Explains How the Democrats Helped Elect Trump
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A: When I started teaching framing the first thing I would tell the class is Dont think of an elephant, and of course, they think of an elephant. I wrote a book on it because the point is, if you negate a frame, you have to activate the frame, because you have to know what youre negating. If you use logic against something, youre strengthening it. And that lesson was not understood. So if people think in terms of logic its a mistake thats made every day on MSNBC you go on there and youll get people saying, Well, you know, Trump said this, and some Republicans said that and Jeff Sessions said this and here are the facts that show theyre wrong. You just keep repeating the things that youre negating. And that just strengthens them.
http://www.alternet.org/news-amp-politics/dont-think-rampaging-elephant-linguist-george-lakoff-explains-how-democrats-helped
I don't repeat what he tweets..