“There’s nothing that the word “barbaric” achieves that the words “absolutely unacceptable” would not have achieved...”
Absolutely unacceptable is urinating in the sink. Barbaric is stoning some woman who went out of her house without a male escort. Barbaric is cutting someone’s head off while calling them an “Infidel”. Barbaric is hijacking planes and crashing them into a building killing innocent people. There is power in words and phrases. Barbaric is the “nicest” word to describe the radical Islamists. IMHO
Over use of the concept of barbaric is unacceptable.
Well, at least I'm not 'barbaric.'