If you spend all of your rhetorical energies smoothing out ALL the sharp pointy bits of your arguments to pre-emtively appeal to somebody, you’re just doing the work of your opposition.
Everyone who does persuasion for a living (salespeople, marketers, lawyers, political writers, think tanks, etc.) puts tons of effort into carefully refining their approach. The details are enormously important, especially when you’re talking about communism and anti-inperialism in the imperial core, where a century of propaganda and hostility has primed most people to immediately dismiss those ideas.
You’re worried about watering down your point. Compare “Israeli soldiers are indiscriminately killing Palestinians” with “IOF terrorists are indiscriminately killing Palestinians.” The first one doesn’t water down the point at all, but you don’t sound like a crank and you don’t give people the opportunity to quibble over an academic question like how “terrorist” should be defined.
At some point you’ve gotta make “your point.”
If you spend all of your rhetorical energies smoothing out ALL the sharp pointy bits of your arguments to pre-emtively appeal to somebody, you’re just doing the work of your opposition.
Everyone who does persuasion for a living (salespeople, marketers, lawyers, political writers, think tanks, etc.) puts tons of effort into carefully refining their approach. The details are enormously important, especially when you’re talking about communism and anti-inperialism in the imperial core, where a century of propaganda and hostility has primed most people to immediately dismiss those ideas.
You’re worried about watering down your point. Compare “Israeli soldiers are indiscriminately killing Palestinians” with “IOF terrorists are indiscriminately killing Palestinians.” The first one doesn’t water down the point at all, but you don’t sound like a crank and you don’t give people the opportunity to quibble over an academic question like how “terrorist” should be defined.
Sysnthesis yo… “Israeli Occupation Forces indiscriminately kill Palestinians.”