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Category: Language/Words

Trump America

Donald Trump wasn’t an aberration; he was our most American President

December 21, 2020 Reece Ellis Democracy, Joe Biden, Language/Words, Politics, Racial issues, Trump, Trump voters Leave a comment

In the meantime, we’re going to have to wrestle with Donald Trump and recognizing that part of why he so arouses our disgust is because we see him in ourselves. If we don’t like what we see, it’s up to each of us to change it.

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World War I

How World War I unleashed total war and the power of propaganda

November 11, 2018 Michael Robbins History, Ideas, Language/Words, War Leave a comment

Nov. 11, now called Veterans Day, was originally Armistice Day, a commemoration of the end of World War I, in 1918, the cessation of

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op-ed

I Know the Identity of the anonymous Op-Ed writer

September 13, 2018 Adam Levin 2018 Election, Activism, Language/Words, Letter to the Editor, Politics, Trump Leave a comment

The last editorial I wrote for Occasional Planet was on the dangers of a potential post-Trump “unity government”. Consisting of centrists and ostensibly anti-Trump

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racism

On-line comments: Where racism reigns

April 7, 2018 Steve Sorkin Language/Words, Media Leave a comment

Against the advice of my cardiologist, I occasionally look at the on-line comments at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch website.  No surprise the comments are

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Banned

Seven words now banned at the Centers for Disease Control

December 16, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Language/Words, Science, Widgets: Science/Technology Leave a comment

If you work at the Centers for Disease Control—the nation’s top public health agency—you are now officially banned from using the following seven words:

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pocahontas

Pocahontas: Native Americans respond to Trump’s latest slur

November 29, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Language/Words, Trump 3 comments

At a ceremony honoring Native American code-talkers, Donald Trump managed to work in one of his favorite slurs—calling Sen. Elizabeth Warren “Pocahontas.”  I don’t

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lexicon

A lexicon of sexual misconduct: There’s a word for what he did to you

November 21, 2017 Gloria Shur Bilchik Language/Words, Legal issues/Law, Violence, Women Leave a comment

When a 94-year-old ex-president gropes your backside, is it sexual assault, sexual harassment, inappropriate touching or what? As women, at long last, feel confident

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Toxic word spills are poisoning democracy

January 28, 2017 Renee Shur Democracy, Language/Words, Trump Leave a comment

Just one week into the Trump presidency, the newly inaugurated president and his circle of sycophants are working overtime to convince us that words

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Political civility during the Trump administration

January 22, 2017 James Wilson Activism, Language/Words, Trump Leave a comment

If one assumes that “divide and conquer” remains the ruling class’s favorite weapon, many leaders must be applauding Donald Trump for having done such

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Trump’s tweets: a taxonomy of trouble

January 20, 2017 Bill Kesler Ideas, Language/Words, Media, Trump Leave a comment

We have done such a poor job of processing Donald Trump’s tweets. Our reaction has always been to immediately parse the literal content. Fact-check

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