"We are fueling each other's paranoia by the simplistic discourse we are pursuing," Mr. Pundak said.
If you fight propaganda with propaganda, you end up with simplistic discourse where truth is not a priority.
He said the government had to unite the nation around fundamental values and not the "simplistic discourse of the far-right that terrorism is Muslims, immigration or Europe".
They hijacked the people's energy towards a simplistic discourse of, "The good people against the corrupt politicians".
This simplistic theory of critical discourse is perfectly incoherent, implying that in a marketplace, the only role "consumers" have is to buy things or not buy things, use things or not use things, and that these decisions should not be informed by vigorous debate and discussion, but only by marketing messages.
They use simplistic and radical religious discourses, they manipulate a young generation who has lost its bearings into the downward spiral of terror, ultimately leading them to turn their backs on universal values.
The stage at the conference brought together a diverse and passionate set of voices that determinedly rejected the simplistic "clash of civilizations" sort of discourse about religion that has dominated politics and political discourse of late.
Dixon Woods points out that patient and professional interests often coincide and it is too simplistic to see the two discourses as oppositional.
American political discourse has grown more simplistic for decades, at least according to the Flesch-Kincaid reading-level formula, a gauge widely used by publishers and educators for evaluating the difficulty of a text, according to the length of its words and the complexity of its sentences.
We need an educated citizenry that has the reasoning power to distinguish rumor and innuendo from fact and has the intellectual tools to pick apart the simplistic rhetoric that passes for political discourse.
The analysis of housing affordability and assistance in NYC reveals "a rich, complex neighborhood topography of poverty, wealth, and housing subsidy that defies the simplistic stereotypes of policy and popular discourse" (Wyly and DeFilippis, 2010, p. 2).
