It's amazing how conservatives manage to turn positive words into negative epithets: liberal, progressive, green, expert, empathy, etc. I don't know how they manage it. I mean, I see them do it; put air quotes around a word or phrase, say it dripping with sarcasm, and, with just a bit of repetition, gold is rendered dross. I see it, but I still don't understand it.
And it's not just the word that is denigrated; it's the entire concept (as with "woke"; or the value of empathy in a Supreme Court Justice, or, hell, the concept of government itself).
I mean, these people go to war against a plastic potato toy and a fictional Mouse, and they are still taken seriously, and, too often, win.
It's amazing how conservatives manage to turn positive words into negative epithets: liberal, progressive, green, expert, empathy, etc. I don't know how they manage it. I mean, I see them do it; put air quotes around a word or phrase, say it dripping with sarcasm, and, with just a bit of repetition, gold is rendered dross. I see it, but I still don't understand it.
And it's not just the word that is denigrated; it's the entire concept (as with "woke"; or the value of empathy in a Supreme Court Justice, or, hell, the concept of government itself).
I mean, these people go to war against a plastic potato toy and a fictional Mouse, and they are still taken seriously, and, too often, win.
Anyway: thank you!