Midge Decter was a major figure whose historical importance has been obscured for many reasons (including, ironically, a sexism she herself supported). One big achievement was she invented the whole rhetorical strategy of "making up a guy to get mad at."
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In her book 'Liberal Parents, Radical Children" (1975) Decter used a method she called "fictionalized sociology" -- creating ideal types of bad people. In other words, "making up a guy to get mad at."pic.twitter.com/RQ2Exx9olZ
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As seen in such classics as Sartre's "Anti-Semite and Jew" or Dorothy Thompson's "Who Goes Nazi?" in Harper's 1941 ... not always the worst of genreshttps://harpers.org/archive/1941/08/who-goes-nazi/ …
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I'm just going to say she's not in their league.
8:33 PM - 11 May 2022
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