[ by Charles Cameron — how can anyone accurately judge the rage of another — and what happens if we simply can’t, but need to take precautions against it? ]
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President Trump certainly spoke of visiting “fire and fury” on the DPNK as quoted by the Economist in its DeafCon page (upper panel):
The question is whether the use of the phrase to headline a piece on the Alt-Right torchlight protest at UVa (lower panel) is appropriate or not?
Does it trivialize the serious matter of potential nuclear war by applying Trump’s phrase to a mere few hundred protesters,
or does it rightly intuit that the fury and fire of the Trump-Bannon platform — as applied to the DPNK nuclear program — is of the same cloth as the fury and fire of the protesters, and thus entirely applicable and appropriate?
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For the second time today:
Metaphors, analogies, parallelisms, paradoxes — my stock in trade — are delicate matters, and should be treated with care.
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