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To: bruinbirdman

Whatever.

You apparently just want to name-call, so go for it. Apparently FR is the place for that now.



136 posted on 12/28/2006 6:40:52 PM PST by SuzyQue (Remember to think.)
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To: SuzyQue
"just want to name-call, so go for it. "

Was a time around the turn of the 20th century when Marxists content to be called "communists". When the label "communist" became pejorative, they slid behind the moniker "socialist". "Socialist" became a bad "name" so they started calling themselves "progressives". When that didnt work, they took over the democrat party under Roosevelt and became "liberals". Now there are few who like the name "liberal". They are back to "progressive". We still call them "socialists" or "communists". Attempts to euphemize pejoratives usually come from those who for years, or centuries, refuse to see the wrongs of their ways. They want to hide, not be identified, not be called a "name". It doesn't work.

Homosexuals were "queers" and "fags". Those who would control language and thus morality and politics and thus lives and minds would have none of it. They wanted to be called "homosexuals". There was supposed to be less of a pejorative attached to the word, a euphemism. It did not work. They wanted to be called "gay". It did not work.

Deviates, whether in the political or cultural arena will never be able to find a euphemism to hide behind that will not be recognized for what it is, a pejorative.

Some of us are simply content with the originals.

yitbos

138 posted on 12/28/2006 8:10:34 PM PST by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds." -- Ayn Rand)
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