There’s been a lot of talk lately, and rightfully so, about the many rhetorical excesses of leftism. They keep coming up with new terms and acronyms and so-called neo-pronouns, as well as new genders and sexual orientations and phobias and so on, almost like it’s an addiction. For whatever reason, it’s apparent that liberals feel compelled to have their own language that’s totally divorced from the rest of the English language. Maybe it’s so they can distinguish themselves from the unenlightened out-group. Maybe they’re just bored and neurotic. Who knows. In any event, conservatives have called out this phenomenon, ad nauseam, for quite some time.
What you rarely hear discussed, though, is that amid this great linguistic revolution we’re all living through, liberals have abandoned as many terms as they’ve invented. It was just about a decade ago, for example, that “female genital mutilation” was a major point of concern among the Left. On college campuses all over the country, female genital mutilation in faraway countries like Somalia was considered one of the foremost human rights abuses on the planet.
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