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Gender, Semantics

“What gender critical feminism really amounts to is a baroque palace of rationalizations built on a foundation of pure disgust”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 3 April 2019
The term “gender critical” is really a euphemism recently created to replace TERF with...
Tagged Contrapoints, Gender, gender critical, linguistics, race realist, Semantics, TERF, Terminology, Transgender, transsexual |
Semantics

“‘Community’ makes everything sound better”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 17 June 2018
“Community” is derived from the Anglo-Norman and Middle French communité, meaning, primarily, “joint ownership.”...
Tagged community, Language, Semantics |
Politics in America

“‘Classified’ still conjures images of top-secret government plots, but, in Trump’s Washington, it’s more often used to describe information that the president would prefer to keep quiet”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 16 April 2018
Trump has been merciless toward anyone else in government who reveals his administration’s secrets,...
Tagged Barack Obama, classified, Donald Trump, Politics, Semantics, Trump Administration, Trump PResidency |
Internet, Semantics, Social Media

“Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild slights by putting an absurd amount of energy into plotting meaningless reprisals”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 15 April 2018
Pettiness often manifests itself as an outsize form of revenge — responding to mild...
Tagged BuzzFeed, pettiness, petty, Semantics, social media, twitter |
Semantics

“Through the whole late 20th century, ‘existential’ floated through American conversation mostly as a kind of mush…”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 20 March 2018
Through the whole late 20th century, “existential” floated through American conversation mostly as a...
Tagged Existential, Semantics |
Semantics

“The way we use ‘entitled’ feels less strange when you consider that its two meanings have slightly different origins”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 18 March 2018
The way we use “entitled” feels less strange when you consider that its two...
Tagged entitlement, entitlements, Semantics |
Semantics

“Owning someone isn’t just about taking his things; it’s about diminishing him as a person”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 9 March 2018
“Owned” is borrowed from hacker slang. If you got owned, that meant some hacker...
Tagged hacker slang, owned, Semantics |
Israel, Semantics

When Michael Oren shifted the definition of “existential”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 5 March 2018
In 2009, Michael B. Oren, soon to become Israel’s ambassador to the United States,...
Tagged Existential, Israel, Language, Michael B. Oren, Semantics |
Politics in America, Semantics

“Politicization is the last refuge of the scoundrel”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 4 March 2018
Politicization is the last refuge of the scoundrel. To “politicize” something — hurricanes, intelligence,...
Tagged political discourse, political speech, politicization, Politics, Semantics |
Politics in America

“Part of what makes the modern use of ‘winning’ so strange is that it’s often used in contexts that are not competitions”

Author Drew Kaplan Date 30 August 2017
Part of what makes the modern use of “winning” so strange is that it’s...
Tagged American Health Care Act, Language, Obamacare, Politics, Politics in America, Semantics, winning |
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