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Moreover, at least some of those complaining the loudest about his alleged unfairness and over-broad generalizing have themselves been guilty of those very vices, and of encouraging and applauding those very vices \u2014 though with far less good humor and far more personal animosity \u2014 for a long, long,\u00a0long time,<\/p>\n
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\u00a0 \u00a0 I\u2019ve already seen squeals of indignation complaining that Stephen Smoot is painting them with a broad brush, that what he says isn\u2019t entirely representative of each and every ex-Mormon. \u00a0That his little piece is unfair. \u00a0 Obviously. \u00a0 But broad generalizations are virtually indispensable to satire. \u00a0 Satire (think, for example, of political […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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