Chickenhawk? Really? Are we just gonna adopt everything from the Left?
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Chickenhawk is a dumb word and it deserves to be mocked out of the language. Max is typically overwrought, but it *is* true both that neoconservative is often misused as a term, and that its misuse has often accompanied anti-Semitic rhetoric. http://www.baseballcrank.com/archives2/2008/03/politics_power.php …
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Replying to @baseballcrank @seanmdav
Both "Chickenhawk" and "neocon" are indeed used as thought-terminating cliches these days. (The latter had a useful context in the late-60s/early 70s for a very specific type of liberal leaving the fold over the new left's pro-communist foreign policy turn.) 1/2
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I don't think "neoconservative" should be banned as a word. I do think it's a word that is so often used for something besides its actual meaning that we ought to cast a skeptical eye at people who throw it around without caring if it's accurate. Words either mean things, or nah
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