Arguing with anecdotes is so common we’ve forgotten how delicate it is. A different approach would also make it easier for us to talk about the recent Cancel Culture case.
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Jens Christian Rabe
Andy Warhol has handed down the beautiful sentence “One’s company, two’s a crowd and three’s a party.” So something is always possible, even when you’re alone, you have yourself, and even three people can really get going. However, particularly in the socio-political debates of the recent past, the funny thought has congealed into the central argumentative principle. The average talk show discussant needs one, two, three catchy individual cases to declare (or call off) a social emergency. And off we go.