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To: Dilbert San Diego

...”Liberals changing our language for no good reason.”

Oh there’s a reason alright but it’s not a good one. It’s a nefarious one. Their bad ideas eventually turn the words associated them into “pejoratives”. The name Illegal Aliens are changed to Illegal Immigrants because the idea of allowing immigrants to cross the border is toxic, so the name associated with it becomes toxic. Liberals can’t have that, so they change the words. They’ll change them again when the new words become toxic. And again. And again.

Shakespeare said it 500 years ago: “A rose by any other name...”.

Changing the name of a thing doesn’t change the thing, despite the word games liberals play.


47 posted on 01/21/2015 8:06:34 AM PST by Personal Responsibility (I'd use the /S tag but is it really necessary?)
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To: Personal Responsibility

Well, why don’t we just go back to using a name that is really, really old? That none of the youngsters have ever heard before. Like “wetbacks.”


48 posted on 01/21/2015 8:08:29 AM PST by nanetteclaret (Unreconstructed "Elderly Kooky Type" Catholic Texan)
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