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Gossip is propaganda, not information. Even the most accurate gossip is filtered through the gossip's beliefs, which include a belief in gossiping.

When people talk about white accents being privileged, they invariably mean the upper class version of those accents. There's no white trash accent privilege or chav accent privilege.

"An armed society is a polite society." -Robert Heinlein
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