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Running head: CONTEXTOMY Contextomy: The Art of Quoting Out of Context Contextomy 2 Abstract “Contextomy” refers to the selective excerpting of words from their original linguistic context in a way that distorts the source’s intended meaning a practice commonly referred to as “quoting out of context.” A contextomized quotation not only prompts audiences to form a false impression of the source’s intentions but can contaminate subsequent interpretation of the quote when it is restored to its original context. I
and Coughlin eventually abandoned the use of contextomized parables in favor of quotes from The Protocols of the Elders of Zion an anti-semitic forgery allegedly documenting the late-night meetings of a secret rabbinical society bent on world domination. It seems reasonable to assume that deceptive excerpting from genuine religious texts required more work for less slander than faithful quoting from this bogus text. 2 Black essayist Shelby Steele (1990) initiated this trend when he titled his controversial critique of