• @Nurse_Robot
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    166 months ago

    Why is ‘tortured’ in quotes

    • @ShittyBeatlesFCPres
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      176 months ago

      A lot of newspapers do that in headlines. They don’t necessarily mean scare quotes.

      Not defending it or implying he’s lying. Just that many newspapers — especially in England — do that a lot and it doesn’t necessarily carry connotations. It often means they have a direct quote. He probably was tortured and they more using it for emphasis rather than doubt.

    • @afraid_of_zombies
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      26 months ago

      Because Christopher Hitchens supported the Iraq war 11 years ago and human beings are incapable of holding more than one idea in their head at a time