“Mother Nature is a TERF” | Helen Joyce & Peter Boghossian
Conversations with Peter Boghossian
The Thought Terminating Cliche: The Salt Police Inside Your Head
The thought terminating cliche is a brief and reductive phrase that ends every analysis. It's the salt police inside your own head. Robert J. Lifton explores this concept in his book 'Thought Reform and Communist China'. The challenge is to avoid falling into this mindset and to challenge transparently wrong and harmful beliefs. People who hold these beliefs refuse to have conversations or engage in dialogue.
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