How is it that so many words have become loaded with negative or positive sentiment without any real justification.
Are we actually expected to just accept the bastardization of language unquestioningly? Can you even hold a rational debate when words have either lost their meaning to taken on connotations in the general parlance without question?
For example; Isolationism = bad, no justification.
Diversity = diversity of color, race and sexual stuff, never diversity of ideas. Nationalism and the nation state = bad.
Patriotism = bad.
Capitalism = bad, even though there is no completely capitalist country in the world and there cannot be one, we can only move along a spectrum as we need a government to enforce market rules.
Ethnic = non white, as through whites don’t have an ethnicity.
Antisemitism = hatred of Jews even though the Iranians as Persians are a semitic people, as are other who speak semitic languages.
The list goes on and on.
How do we get past the hijacking of language when questioning it often requires having such a wide body of knowledge that it is outside the scope of the average uncritical person who doesn’t read widely? The answer; Small minds. Inability for abstract thinking. Zero forward thinking. Life just hits them in the face and dumbfounded they are amazed at the outcome.
Bravo!!
[although, you did come across as a bit xenophobic…]
[LMAO]
Au contrare mis ami, I just prefer ‘Mericans!;)