The Skill of Deciphering Meaning in Coalition Bullshit

There’s a few tools we get trained in to get meaning out of media - and they can be used to see why a comment from a politician trying to sound relatable and totally not racist comes across as the complete opposite to people - this is what we call semiotics, the study of the meaning of words and symbols together.

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