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' " Next, heroic outrage: He stepped forward when he could no longer watch the debate be "engulfed by spins and half-truths."
American culture has always fed off half-truths about authenticity, and this is the way in which alternative country is a genuine expression of something: Hipsters with a sense of ironic detachment, like Chicago's Moonshine Willy, have as much claim to the "real" America as any mule-driver.
What most thinking people in black studies find dangerous about the middlebrow apotheosis of the field is that it usually leads to the enshrinement of what Jacques Barzun calls thought-clichés, half-truths or non-truths that are accepted as the truth because someone said so in some reference book like Africana . Thought-clichés are like narcotics; people love them because they relieve them of the very thing they do not wish to do in any case, that is, think, think hard, and think critically and against the grain of their own beliefs or psychological needs or neurotic fantasy projections.
He has devised a number of lies and half-truths to convey this.
5 and 6 are half-truths, of which the true portion applies to all three programs.