#stating

The clear problem of the outlawing of insult is that too many things can be interpreted as such. Criticism, ridicule, sarcasm, merely stating an alternative point of view to the orthodoxy, can be interpreted as insult. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

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#clear #criticism #insult #interpreted #many

A collective spasm of carbophobia seized the country,... ↗

— Michael Pollan

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#stating-the-obvious #nature

I am not making spiteful assertions now but merely stating the facts-that, for instance, among Hungarian generals there is such a considerable percentage of men of German origin, who of course had, in most cases, to alter their names if they wanted to get anywhere. ↗

— Heinrich Himmler

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#am #among #anywhere #assertions #cases