This is Frequency Scrambling. What this technique achieves effectively is to divert us away from a genuine grievance by raising a false one. So much time is consequently spent on rebutting the false grievance, for example that curricula in elite British universities are being forcibly changed to include more black or female writers, that no time at all is then spent on the original grievance, which is that some elite universities’ syllabuses are out of date, ethnocentric and not sufficiently inclusive. The time that I have spent writing these words is, ironically, a triumph of Frequency
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