Seeing recent headlines like “woman catches fire on NY subway” and “a car was driven into a market” shows how identity politics is having a chilling effect on truthful dissemination of information. Let’s talk about how.
— Elica Le Bon الیکا ل بن (@elicalebon) December 23, 2024
Ordinarily, these headlines would be written in active… pic.twitter.com/JetXBpU5bk
One should always append “by zombies” to any use of the passive voice.
A car was driven into a market… by zombies.
But the construction “A woman catches fire on a NY subway” precludes even zombies as the causal actor. A spontaneous act of god, I’m sure.
A person who would drive a car in a market is in a broad sense, a kind of zombie?
The second headline makes one wonder if the car was Christine.