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Mind Moves:'Loose talk can cost lives." "Button your lip." "Keep it under your hat." So enjoined second World War posters at a time when careless talk did indeed have the capacity to cost the ...
In Britain, the key slogan was "Careless talk costs lives"; famous cartoons by Fougasse showed British citizens talking quietly, not noticing caricatures of Hitler or Goebbels listening in.
To some this seemed like proof that Islamophobic talk, even of the most cerebral kind, could have a cost in blood. In response, critics of Islam were defiant, not embarrassed. In the sarcastic ...