If digital natives spring to the defence of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook too quickly or with too
much vehemence they face the genuine risk of being associated with all the things — Trump, Russia, dark closed systems for thought control, right wing politics — that most of these bright young people should be opposed to.
Not exact matches
Jeff, while on the surface your comments make sense; however, IF you dig down, and look at the real issues at hand, it is
much more often and with
much more
vehemence, that Christians condemn atheists as «idiots» «heathens» «unclean» and any number of other rather unpleasant names.
From low revs the engine is responsive and by 3000rpm its on song, a fat wad of torque propelling it forward with a level of
vehemence matched only by Donald Trump telling the world how
much of Manhattan he owns.
Considering that genre fiction is thought to sell so
much more readily than literary, I'm always surprised at the
vehemence with which some people will describe literary fiction as boring and «pretentious» — as if vampires prancing around in ill - researched period costumes aren't pretentious in their own fashion; as if utterly implausible science fiction isn't a form of pretension at warp speed.
And the view that the climate has not warmed for over a decade and a half is no longer controversial — only people assembled at the Guardian argue otherwise, albeit they argue the point with (far too
much)
vehemence.
I mainly found this one of interest in terms of the
vehemence of the dispute over not very
much, really.