{"product_id":"ali-almossawi-an-illustrated-book-of-loaded-language-9781615198405","title":"An Illustrated Book of Loaded Language","description":"Public discourse? More like public discord. The battle cries of our culture wars are rife with \"loaded language\"-be it bias, slant, or spin. But listen closely, or you'll miss what Ali Almossawi finds more frightening still: words that erase accountability, history, even identity through what they leave unsaid.\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nSpeaking as wise old Mr. Rabbit, Almossawi leads us through a dark forest of rhetoric-aided by Orwell, Baldwin, and a squee-worthy cast of wide-eyed woodland creatures. Here, \u003cb\u003epassive voice\u003c\/b\u003e can pardon wrongdoers, \u003cb\u003estatistics\u003c\/b\u003e may be a smokescreen, \u003cb\u003egaslighting\u003c\/b\u003e entraps the downtrodden, and \u003cb\u003eirrelevant adjectives\u003c\/b\u003e cement stereotypes. Emperor Squirrel isn't naked; he has a clothes-free sartorial style. Mouse's roof becomes flattened (Elephant's foot just happens to be there at the time). And when keen-eyed Owl claims a foreign shore, he seems to be overlooking someone . . .\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nFans of Almossawi's An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments couldn't ask for a better primer on the less logical ways that words can trick us. It takes a long pair of ears to hear what's left unsaid-but when you're a rabbit in a badger world, listening makes all the difference.","brand":"Experiment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53908845986134,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/www.momoxbooks.com\/products\/ali-almossawi-an-illustrated-book-of-loaded-language-9781615198405","provider":"momoxbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}