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Although deliberately framed as if it were a law of nature or of mathematics, its purpose has always been rhetorical and pedagogical: I wanted folks who glibly compared someone else to Hitler or to Nazis to think a bit harder about the Holocaust. The problem is that the comparison is often entirely appropriate even if the topic is not about anything directly involving Nazis or the Holocaust. For example, anyone who annoys me at work with empty rhetoric about the need for more emotional intelligence or empathy gets an email with this article, which directly compares EI and those who practice it to Hitler (only reason anyone remembers the shitty painter from Austria is that he was good at emotional manipulation of others): theatlantic/health/archive/2014/01/the-dark-side-of-emotional-intelligence/282720/
Posted on: Sun, 22 Jun 2014 19:12:31 +0000

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