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Note how this statement can be understood in various ways: "Sports fans of Lady Gaga play".
"I do not see how this statement can be reconciled with your campaign promise to protect whistle-blowers.
I also think of how this statement can also be applied to other situations, like "to be cisgender is to be cissexist, period," or similar parallels.
(Note how this statement is actually three insults squeezed into one; what did Wim Wenders do to get so brutally Kakutanied along with DeLillo?) Certain observers resented Kakutani for resisting "I," a preference that became more noticeable as the chatty, confessional informality of Internet writing started to change the tone of criticism in the early aughts.
Within the scene, however, I want to focus on the bolded phrase and think about how this statement arises, why it is accepted as legitimate, how the response melds the discourse of law and love, whether the response appears elsewhere in different form.
On first sight, it seems that only an occasionalist explanation of physical processes would fulfill these four conditions, and this is how this statement has mostly been understood.
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Just how remarkable this statement is can be gauged when you compare it with the instruction given by Susan Shabangu, minister of mines at the time of the 2012 Marikana mine massacre, to a meeting of police officers on the subject of how to deal with offenders: "You must kill the bastards if they threaten you or your community.
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Since I tried Ludwig back in 2017, I have been constantly using it in both editing and translation. Ever since, I suggest it to my translators at ProSciEditing.

Justyna Jupowicz-Kozak
CEO of Professional Science Editing for Scientists @ prosciediting.com