Re:Why We Banned the Word “Ethnic” (2019)
by hedora on Sunday March 13, 2022 @12:48PM
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Ah, but this is the first step in Orwellian destruction of words.
At this point, unless they violate this rule, no one in the press will accuse Putin of ethnic cleansing.
Instead, we get complicated, varied, descriptions of individual events (“they bombed a school”, “a rocket hit a maternity ward”). Each could be discounted as one off accidents instead of a systematic campaign.
At this point, unless they violate this rule, no one in the press will accuse Putin of ethnic cleansing.
Instead, we get complicated, varied, descriptions of individual events (“they bombed a school”, “a rocket hit a maternity ward”). Each could be discounted as one off accidents instead of a systematic campaign.