How to use the “past exonerative“ tense

Recent events reminded me of an old McSweeney’s piece [0] on the clever use of grammatical forms to remove any implication of agency or culpability from a description of past events. When I went to search for that, this new article popped up. English is a fascinating language.

[0] https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/an-interactive-guide-to-...