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Bonobo

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3. Despite its bad press, the "tone argument" makes a lot of sense.

Reply to Major Nikon (Reply #2)

Mon Sep 22, 2014, 11:11 AM

Sep 2014

Conversation, debate, all ideas and thinking are dependent upon language. It moderates and structures all human thought. Used wisely and skillfully, it is a tool for changing minds and influencing people. Used poorly and clumsily, it results in the opposite.

So I have always found the "But that's a TO~OOONE ARGUMENT~~~!!!" meme to be strange. Of course tone is important. Weird.

Clearly Emma Watson understands this.

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I celebrate Feminism and support it in every way. [View all] Bonobo Sep 2014 OP

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