Toucano
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Fri Nov-12-10 10:18 PM
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I wish we could retire the N-word. |
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Rush Limbaugh brought it into vogue in 1992 when he used it as a suffix to mean "extremist".
It was amusingly attached to a noun on "Seinfeld" to describe someone who was aggressively and needlessly strict.
Now in 2010, it's everywhere. The right uses it to describe Obama. The left uses it to describe Bush and Cheney.
I've seen it attached to "food", "grammar", "pet", "beer", and "shoe".
It's use today has almost nothing to do with historical context; it is now bandied about so much as to be utterly meaningless for anything other than a generalized insult.
It has become a clichés, and like all clichés, it doesn't deepen or amplify meaning - it just acts as some sort of lazy, witless shorthand.
It's just so played out! Can we really do no better at expressing ourselves than this?
Please consider purging it from your vocabulary except to describe the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei or any of their bona fide sympathizers and emulators.
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Nye Bevan
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Fri Nov-12-10 10:39 PM
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4vf8N6GpdMHilarious parody of Inglorious Basterds. But then again those really are Nazis.
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Fri Nov-12-10 11:52 PM
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2. The word "socialist" was used so much, it is now meaningless! |
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Sat Nov-13-10 12:08 AM
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Sat Nov-13-10 04:33 AM
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8. In the title of the NSDAP itself, actually. |
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Sat Nov-13-10 12:11 AM
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Edited on Sat Nov-13-10 12:11 AM by BolivarianHero
Not till the American right getting elected with this shit. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QvKOdiyFawShe should emulate her Fuhrer's one decent act and fucking kill herself already.
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Sat Nov-13-10 01:42 AM
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It's xenophobia. It's racism. It's vile.
It's even dangerous.
But it's not Nazism.
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Sat Nov-13-10 12:15 AM
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Sat Nov-13-10 12:18 AM
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6. Godwin's law used to come into play after a long exchange |
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now it's thrown out in the first few.
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