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Great Moments in Metaphor

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01.16.14 | 12:11 pm

All things considered, best to keep the ‘lynching’ metaphor to people who are black, come from historically terrorized minorities and/or most of all end up dying by being hanged from a tree. On the other hand, maybe not: Rothenberg: Christie Scandal Has Become A ‘Political Lynching’

@joshtpm Shorter inappropriate Rothenberg metaphor: “12 Lanes A Slave”?

— Aditya Sood (@adityasood) January 16, 2014

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