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No exaggeration: Hyperbole makes words worthless spectator.co.uk/2019/06/no-exa…
Saturday night, a guest commentator on Sky News sputtered that Donald Trump has ‘normalised white supremacy’.
Welcome to the world of impotent hyperbole. That dig about white supremacy is a good example of contemporary word inflation...
Welcome to the world of impotent hyperbole. That dig about white supremacy is a good example of contemporary word inflation...
(The fetishistic lefty resort to normalise deserves parsing as well: the verb seems to decode ‘Maybe it’s not strictly illegal yet but we don’t like it, so it should be illegal’.)
Now that white supremacist no longer refers specifically to Anglo-Saxons who proudly believe their race is superior, the term means nothing.
