Ironically, they do it in the name of purging “subjective interpretation” from their interpretation of the original text.

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almost neglected to follow my own rule bsky.app/profile/audr...

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future generations will marvel that while all this was happening 34% of americans still approved of donald trump, reform in the UK & german neo-nazis were making electoral gains, & a huge number of fools in australia were looking at the PHON clown car & thinking ‘yeah, i’ll vote for that!’ #auspol

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“I spent all morning taking out a comma and all afternoon putting it back in” may not be the slam dunk we think it is— Deborah Brandt has the receipts on this, THE RISE OF WRITING (2015).

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I point this out, btw, because we [academics and allies on this site] tend to valorize an activity which for many people in the world is one they perform under varying degrees of compulsion, and which they find tedious, intimidating, and fraught in different measures.

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