this is true, but it also applies to all language. speech makes liars of us all.
The word "screed" is a sign of intellectual dishonesty. In practice it means no more than "something someone wrote that I disagree with," but by hiding this in the noun you use to describe the work, you make it seem as if this were some intrinsic feature of it.
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Emotive language? Should be a red flag...
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It did 50 years ago, but like "problematic" it has been adopted as an element of far-left cant, and had its meaning shifted in the process.
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reading about substack, eh?
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Yeah, I saw a quote from that bogus article in the CJR. But I had noticed this pattern for a while.
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Also the word “spew”
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"Ilk" is similar.
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It's namecalling and an ad hominem fallacy. Humans collaborate better, more productively, with better results, when they learn to filter out most or all disrespectful judgments and angry outbursts from their discourse.
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