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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by toomim on Thursday March 04, 2021 @08:58PM (#26351519)
Nope, we call that "defense!"
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by ClumsyPilot on Thursday March 04, 2021 @10:00PM (#26352016)
We used to staight up call it 'ministry of war" untill PR people got involved. I prefered the more hobest approach, keeps you on your toes.
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by StillBored on Thursday March 04, 2021 @11:46PM (#26352835)
If your speaking of the USA, it was the "Department of War"

Until yah, someone decided to throw in some doublespeak.

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by torstenvl on Friday March 05, 2021 @03:05AM (#26354168)
Doublespeak is used to hide the truth, not to express the truth. The renaming happened in the late 1940s, in a United States that was reluctant to join WWII in the first place, and as the entire world got behind the idea that aggressive war was a violation of the law of nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charter_of_the_United_Nations

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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by ClumsyPilot on Friday March 05, 2021 @06:13AM (#26355514)
"express the truth"? This is not subjective you know, USA got had more wars in the last 100 years than any other industrialised nation. No matter your political views, the truth is 'department of war'
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Re:Dr. Seuss books deemed offensive will be delisted from eBay by torstenvl on Friday March 05, 2021 @04:01PM (#26362039)
You're right. It isn't subjective. You're wrong as a matter of numbers, as a matter of legal analysis, and as a matter of history. Stop pushing a political narrative.
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