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Kevin Henderson is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He is also a student in the program for Advanced Feminist Studies through the Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies Department at UMass.
Manipulations of public sentiment not only harm their intended target; they can set back decades of progressive politics.
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