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Fighting Words

Why it is impossible for terms like "cancel culture" and "identity politics" to possess universal meaning

Berny Belvedere
Sep 23, 2021
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A few months back, we ran a sharp piece by Nathan Allebach on the difference between liberals and leftists. He started his article with a brief meditation on language:

Nothing fuels online discourse like fights over language. New terms will popularize in a subculture then trickle into the zeitgeist until they lose universal meaning, if it was ever there …

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