Everyone who has ever said "It’s the status quo that’s radical" was a radical. Wanting a drastic departure from the status quo is the dictionary definition of "radical." If you need to try to change the meaning of words, you are probably losing.https://twitter.com/JuddLegum/status/1199359400194007040 …
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Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Dave Weigel
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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Dave WeigelVerified account @daveweigel"Abolish ICE" push kind of fell apart for the same semantical reason: Republicans pretended that Democrats wanted absolutely no immigration or customs enforcement. Warren never said "abolish" herself, talked about "replacing" ICE. https://twitter.com/ParkerMolloy/status/1199357868992090113 … https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/30/politics/elizabeth-warren-ice-immigration-protests/index.html …7 replies 11 retweets 37 likesShow this thread -
Dan McLaughlin Retweeted Paul Waldman
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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Paul WaldmanVerified account @paulwaldman1To white people who hear "white privilege" and think "Nobody's handing me anything!", another way to think about it is what you DON'T have to worry about. I'm a white guy who has been driving for 30+ years. Know how many times I've been pulled over when I wasn't speeding? ZERO. https://twitter.com/byjoelanderson/status/1201532110579724288 …3 replies 3 retweets 12 likesShow this thread -
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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It's how you talk if you're intent is to self-inflate, rather than persuade.
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