14 May 2020

• Pernicious: Having a harmful effect, especially in gradual and subtle way. 
• There is this pernicious idea by this (Thomas) Friedman guy that the world is flat and everything is now the same, so what works in one place can work for everyone. (Vaclav Smil). 
• Forced unveiling in "democratic" society is as pernicious as forced veiling in any part of the Muslim world. (Hamid Dabashi) (16/10/22)