In his piece on the Thorburn affair in Australia, Simon Kennedy offered an important and, to my knowledge, mostly new contribution to the entire negative world discourse. Though he mentioned the idea of “winsomeness” being the problem, he also proposed a better, more precise term: conciliatory. While the difference between being winsome and being conciliatory may not be immediately apparent, it actually should inform our understanding of our moment in a fairly significant way.
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