Metaphor Matters
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In the 1960s, Charles Katz was convicted of illegal gambling, having used a public telephone booth in Los Angeles to place out-of-state bets. The evidence against him consisted of recordings of his own telephone conversations, which the FBI had collected with a warrantless wiretapping device they had installed on the outside of the phone booth. …
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In September 2019, Virginia State Senator Amanda Chase (Republican) ran a Facebook ad where she warned gun control advocates that she was “not afraid to shoot” them down: an extraordinarily insensitive choice of wording in light of the exceedingly contentious nature of the issue of gun rights in the USA, along with the regular occurrence…
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Kaveh Rashidi is a doctor, born in Norway of Iranian parents. He is a Norwegian citizen and has lived all his life in Norway. He identifies as 100% Norwegian. One day in mid-August, he was walking in the streets of Oslo with noise-cancelling headphones on. A woman who he didn’t know pointed at him and…