Here’s a post that almost no one saw when I put it up in 2010, stumbling across it this evening I decided it was good enough to be posted again. And probably ignored again…
For a while, I’ve been thinking about sentences of the form “I’m not a [label,] but [statement.]” After some quick searches on LexisNexis and Google, I think I can assign these sentences to two major categories: those which are a way of saying “Please don’t dismiss me after you hear this statement,” and those which are a way of saying “Please don’t dismiss me before you hear this statement.”
1. “Please don’t dismiss me after you hear this statement” sentences seem to break into two major sub-categories. First, those where the form is “I’m not a [person who is hostile to group X,] but [idea that might be unhelpful to members of group X.]” Second, those where the form is “I’m not a [person who stands to benefit from policy Y,] but [endorses policy Y.]”
Examples of the…
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