People
It is not crazy to think that powerful people do some pretty horrible things. And maybe they get out of hand. Maybe it just gets away from them. It snowballs.
— Janeane Garofalo
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker argues that suspecting powerful people of terrible actions need not be irrational. They suggest that wrongdoing can grow beyond its perpetrators’ control, gathering force like a snowball. The repeated maybe presents this as a possibility rather than proof about any particular people or events.
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