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6/ This is why the characteristic phrase of a bully feeling threatened by someone bearing witness is "what are YOU looking at?"
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7/ The power of bearing witness is that you don't need to contest the narrative: the actor being witnessed does it himself.
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8/ Through your silent, "I see you," you force the actor to acknowledge that they are knowingly enacting a false narrative.
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11/ Laxman was not the greatest comic. His jokes were not always funny. But The Common Man was a masterful invention.
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15/ Instead, he simply mirrored the hypocrisies and bullshit of the political classes by having his character bear witness to it.
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17/ He was not always the most politically astute. To those who do not understand his milieu, he can appear somewhat tame.
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18/ His cartoon commentary was not radical. It was even pedestrian at times. But the Common Man elevated every gag panel to sublime.
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