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Cults
"Cult" may refer to the original and typically ancient sense of "religious practice" or to a newly established religious movement. It is also a pejorative term for a group whose religious beliefs are considered fanatical and unacceptable.
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I am not the first person to point out the similarities between Jones and Trump, but I highlight their overlapping oratories more as an invitation to consider the precise language forms that contributed to Trump's deceptive and violent charisma. Not to drum up fear that the man is capable of orchestrating a mass poisoning in Guiana. I doubt Trump could even name which continent Guiana is on.
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― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
― Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism
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Most NYPD officers generally treated Malcolm X's murder case not as a significant political assassination, but as a neighborhood shooting in the dark ghetto, a casualty from two rival black gangs feuding against each other.
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― Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
― Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention
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