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170. Actively Passive
The Allusionist
The Passive Voice
"There's intentionality in removing words and phrases," she says. "The National Trust for Historic Preservation had posted about a building they own in Washington, D.C., where people were held in bondage within view of the White House." The passive voice sentence is writing from the perspective of empathy for a white audience that might be offended who might feel shame about reading that people connected to them, their ancestors, held people in bondage. To me, it seems as though this passive voice sentence was writing from the perspectives of empathy fora white audience which may not want to know what happened there.
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