Conversation

On Fake Hannah Arendt Quotations

> The impulse to clarify, simplify, and “market” Arendt to a public trained on easy social media quotations is real.
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> Which raises a second question: does the alteration matter? And here, the answer is yes. And it turns out that this is hardly the first time that Hannah Arendt’s words have been altered and simplified to ease their public consumption.

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/on-fake-hannah-arendt-quotations-2024-08-04