The fallout from Trump's war on Harvard will outlast his term
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The US president's ramped-up threats are seen by many as an attempt to reshape a stronghold of the left. Could he succeed?
  • brianary@startrek.website
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    5 days ago

    I think that aphorism is about authority-respect rather than basic-human-decency-respect.

    This thread makes me wonder how much contemporary American English is to blame for people being able to exploit ambiguities surreptitiously. Dog whistles have to start somewhere, they don’t seem to be prearranged.

    • Almacca@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      3 days ago

      Words don’t have meaning any more, or they mean whatever you want them to mean as long as you can use them to pummel the opposition, because that’s all that really matters. It’s the style of the time.