smooth

You can compare the two.
And you ought to.

If you disagree, read some Gramsci...


I'll come back to this thread after I've seen some evidence that people have at least tried to come to terms with his concept of hegemony. Otherwise the comments I'd like to add won't make much sense.


EDIT: as an aside, that is one of the worst snopes articles I've read. The investigator could have provided the reader with links to the concepts I alluded to above: why we see things the way we do, why the second photographer understands looting in a context of smashing windows and stealing electronics, but not food items that are obviously drifting out of a store in front of him and the people taking the items, the journalist's ad hoc explanation for why it wasn't looting, and etc.

Instead, the investigator simply quoted a second hand article quoting the journalists and called it good. Didn't even bother to deconstruct their responses...Snopes, you've done a disservice to your readers on this example.

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