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Changing reality with words
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/20 ... admission/

Victor Davis Hansen wrote:The reinvention of vocabulary can often be more effective than any social protest movement. Malarial swamps can become healthy “wetlands.” Fetid “dumps” are often rebranded as green “landfills.”

From/to:

- Global warming/climate change.
- Affirmative action/diversity.
- Illegal alien/illegal immigrant/undocumented immigrant/immigrant/migrant.
- Liberal/progressive.

VDH wrote: Radical changes in vocabulary are usually admissions that reality is unwelcome or indefensible.

Rather than training the next generation of American leaders, so-called “premiere” institutions graduate class after class of adults who are unable to tolerate opposing viewpoints.”

https://www.yaf.org/wp-content/uploads/ ... 8-2019.pdf

After reading the bias and assumptions in the course descriptions, perhaps reality is the opposing viewpoint.

changing reality with words is double plus good

-Imp

- Lies/alternative facts

problems/issues

obstacles/challenges

impossible/maybe

natural beauty/luxury items

hippies/boomers

uptight/loose

relevant/nonsense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L06Ig2Oi4i8

Can anyone tell me the appropriate evolved PC term for a pain in the ass?

Nick_A wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 7:08 pm Can anyone tell me the appropriate evolved PC term for a pain in the ass?

liberal democrat

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Nick_A wrote: ↑Wed Feb 27, 2019 7:08 pm Can anyone tell me the appropriate evolved PC term for a pain in the ass?

The Leftist burro that answers Fatso gets a media ho-hum.