[a little elbow grease]

"This is more proggie Newspeak at work (ala 1984); they want to redefine the word nationalist into something bad."

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I totally agree with you.

I'm 71 years old in a month, and I've watched this relentless, purposeful mutation and degeneration of our language for decades.

I warned people about it as long ago as the early 70's when they started to tell us words like "criticism" and "judgmental" were negative concepts/attributes.

It's been going on too long to turn it around.

[polymuser]

“I warned people about it as long ago as the early 70’s when they started to tell us words like “criticism” and “judgmental” were negative concepts/attributes.”

Other bastardized words: Gay, discriminating (taste), rainbow, marriage, equality, rights, gender.