Corporate b*llsh*t

Rhetorical devices

• The simplest strategy is outright denial. Cigarettes don’t cause cancer. Global warming isn’t happening. 
• The Free Market Knows Best. claimed that the problem would be solved without regulation because addressing the problem would be in the interests of the private sector.
• It’s Not Our Fault, It’s Your Fault. Purdue Pharma, in an internal strategy memo, laid out its plan to blame addicts for the deadly effects of the company’s products. In fact, to the company, they weren’t even “addicts,” but should be referred to instead as “abusers.” 
• It’s a Job Killer. “Nice economy you have there, it would be a shame if anything were to happen to it.”
• progressive reforms only “hurt the people they’re trying to help.”