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So now we’re having a word war using a thesaurus, as though a re-naming of a coercive government action makes it less oppressive.

Our daughter used to play that game. We would correct her for hitting her sister. She said, I didn’t hit her; I slapped her.

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You pretty much nailed it. The left wants nothing more than to draw us into a war over terminology and semantic hair splitting.