If you are calling for replacing ICE with an agency with substantially the same functions, that's not actually "abolishing" it. In which case, it's not semantical at all. Words have meaning.https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1199358977626320906 …
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The term's counterproductive because that *is* what the word "privilege" means in English. Try telling low-income African-Americans they're privileged bc they live on stolen Native American land & don't live in, say, Afghanistan. Words have meaning.https://twitter.com/paulwaldman1/status/1201541671957270528 …
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Like redefining "racism" as something other than racial discrimination & prejudice, this is a textbook example of how progressive efforts to remake the language to appeal to woke-academic sentiment works against the ends they claim to desire in persuading ordinary people.
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If you actually want to persuade Americans that a segment of the population faces a chronic injustice, argue that. It won't always work, but historically, it has many times. Telling working-class voters they're privileged is how you talk if you don't care if they believe you.
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That's a silly argument. Sometimes it's not what's illegal that's outrageous, but what's legal. That's the point he's making.
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You assume the status quo represents the will of the people. It doesn't. It represents the will of a radical minority.
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You redefine radical when you figure out that radical has come to mean bad.
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I don't know why you are on this "word have meaning" kick. Millions of people get their meaning in life by redefining words, so as to simplify their world in order for them to deal with it.
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IMO what makes someone radical is an unwillingness to compromise, we live in a country with 50 states that all live like they are completely different worlds, if we do not learn how to compromise, & just have this my way or the highway attitude, we will remain deadlocked
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So then Trump and all of his supporters are radicals, according to this extremely narrow definition. Because, you know, he campaigned on the promise to "blow up" the status quo.
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