Gone with the Wind: how a 1936 novel explains modern America
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Is Scarlett Using the Word Violence, and It Triggers Violence?
The word slorre is so deeplyso almost unconsciously, associated with violence. When characters use the word they then start fantasizing, without ratial violence,. They in o so scarlett uses the word, and then thinks longingly, that's the novel's word. Thinks longingly about whipping blackright? So that so the word triggers these violent races fantasies, and it triggers actual racial violence. And i mean so much so that I put a trigber warning at the beginning of the book. The ways in which language is used to cloak that, or as a veil, to disguise, to keep ourselves from seeing that, is a really important unseen on the history ostrepub
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