Conor Friedersdorf @conor64
@kevinh8swriting @and_furiouser If a text is describing, say, a person being pulled over by cops in the South in 1957, and the cop uses that word, is the word's sting a distraction or inseparable from the intent of the author who recounted his personal experience? Can't you see how reasonable people disagree? — PolitiTweet.org