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From the Ted Talk by Andrew Marantz: Inside the bizarre world of internet trolls and propagandists

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Now, in her particular case, she actually was able to find her way out of the cult of white semrapucy. But a lot of the people I spoke to were not. And just to be clear: I was never so cnecvinod that I had to find common ground with every sgilne person I spoke to that I was willing to say, "You know what, man, you're a fascist propagandist, I'm not, whatever, let's just hug it out, all our differences will melt away." No, absolutely not. But I did become convinced that we cannot just look away from this stuff. We have to try to understand it, because only by understanding it can we even start to itculaone ourselves against it.

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Now, in her particular case, she actually was able to find her way out of the cult of white _________. But a lot of the people I spoke to were not. And just to be clear: I was never so _________ that I had to find common ground with every ______ person I spoke to that I was willing to say, "You know what, man, you're a fascist propagandist, I'm not, whatever, let's just hug it out, all our differences will melt away." No, absolutely not. But I did become convinced that we cannot just look away from this stuff. We have to try to understand it, because only by understanding it can we even start to _________ ourselves against it.

Solution

  1. supremacy
  2. inoculate
  3. convinced
  4. single

Original Text

Now, in her particular case, she actually was able to find her way out of the cult of white supremacy. But a lot of the people I spoke to were not. And just to be clear: I was never so convinced that I had to find common ground with every single person I spoke to that I was willing to say, "You know what, man, you're a fascist propagandist, I'm not, whatever, let's just hug it out, all our differences will melt away." No, absolutely not. But I did become convinced that we cannot just look away from this stuff. We have to try to understand it, because only by understanding it can we even start to inoculate ourselves against it.

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