Political Rhetoric in Black and White

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Political Rhetoric in Black and White

The photographer Mark Peterson, like most Americans frustrated with our democratic experiment, hyperprocesses his images to cast the hard-edged rhetoric in sharp relief.

via Lens Blog: http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/11/08/politics-in-black-and-white/?_r=0

Even in these ferociously partisan times, Mark Peterson finds it staggering how the national conversation about politics has gone so over the top. Fervid comparisons to Nazis, slavery, the Ku Klux Klan, totalitarianism, communism, Muslim extremism and terrorism are tossed around so casually that the words seem to lose their edge; the history becomes fuzzy.