"Whore" poutrage surfaced in Meg Whitman's 2010 campaign. NR pointed out it's TWO MEANINGS!
So this month’s flap over someone “using a word” is between Meg Whitman and Jerry Brown in their battle for the California governorship...This time it’s whore, on a tape from last month that turned up of a conversation between Brown and an aide. ...
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The simple fact is that whore has two meanings. One is the original and ancient one of a woman who sells her body for money. It could even be argued that this meaning of the word is becoming somewhat old-fashioned. Words evolve. Always. The newer meaning of whore is a secondary and derived one, applied to a person who takes money or some other form of recompense in return for a service deemed substandard in quality or ethics.
Note that I write “person,” as whore is applied readily to men as well as women. A quick internet search reveals the word being applied to Ben Stein, Hugh Jackman, Lil Wayne and Harry Reid (and in Jackman’s case, he even happily applies it to himself). Pointedly, Whitman’s current campaign chairman Pete Wilson, back in 1995, accused Congress of being “such whores to public employees unions” (in reference to the Fair Labor Practices Act during the Depression!!).
https://newrepublic.com/article/78367/california-screamin-the-w-word
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They know what it means. I guess they can't help it though. Look who they support. 
