Jay argues that conspiracy language needs careful parsing because different claims about 9/11 or power range from orchestration to opportunistic narrative fitting, and those distinctions matter.
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Jay argues that conspiracy language needs careful parsing because different claims about 9/11 or power range from orchestration to opportunistic narrative fitting, and those distinctions matter.
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Jay frames his own public work as myth-making with truth rather than journalism, and says post-9/11 language about Islam made him worry about both disingenuous denial and backlash against innocent Muslims.
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"Yeah, no, that was good. If I could respond to it, because again, the one phrasing when you're like the people who run this..."
"It's like, does that mean they orchestrated? It does that mean they assisted it? Does that mean they looked the other way at certain..."
"Right. If Donald Rumsfeld was fully in control of it, he would have been like, can we make them all Iraqi? Can we just,..."
"Yeah. Yeah, yeah. But But so but to push on that analogy, though, I mean, that was an instance where you thought the truth..."
"...you know, I jumped into a lot of this work after 911. When expressions by George W. Bush, particularly to the world when everybody..."
"...to think about whether or not the experiences of the post -911 years when the U.S. tried these kinds of wars in the Middle..."
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