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Tone-Policing and the Assertion of Authority

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Tone Policing is a dangerous habit that has real psychosocial consequences. CHANDRA PRESCOD-WEINSTEIN If tone policing is anything at all, then it is bad. This is pretty much a truism on and off the internet; the term is only ever used either pejoratively or sarcastically. No one defends themselves by saying, “well, in this case, […]
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