Thomas Zimmer (tzimmer_history@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Mar-2025 05:19:05 JST

I am not even talking about straight-up rightwing propaganda. I mean the pervasive tendency in the mainstream political discourse and in polite society to look for ways to sanitize what is happening, to come up with ways to make it seem “respectable” or “reasonable” or “normal.”