mekka okereke Mar 6

Slurs spoke themselves unto the mouths of young GOP members again! I just hope that they're all OK!🤡

Slurs emitted themselves fully formed, from the fingertips of innocent far-right people! That must have been terrifying for them! 🤡

Pray for those that survived spontaneous chat room devolution! 🤡

Show threadJürgen Hubert

@mekkaokereke

Passive voice - the bane of accountability.

Mar 7 at 4:35amWeb
Show threadcanning jarsMar 7
@juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke there’s active voice, passive voice, and NYT exonerative voice
Show threadBen RosengartMar 7

@juergen_hubert @mekkaokereke This is active voice. The Times did their dirt semantically — not grammatically — by attributing the action to an abstract noun instead of a specific person or group.

(Passive voice: "The dirt was done semantically ..." "The chat was filled with slurs ...")

In the paper signs in this photo, passive voice is on the left, active on the right.

I apologize for my pedantry.