Word: epithets
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...talk these days among the Irish is of "fiddles." Not the kind that make music but the ones that make money. Fiddle is a coy Celtic epithet for the sort of financial finaglings plaguing the Irish republic even as scandalmongers have their eyes on Tokyo and Manhattan...
...HANDS of conservative critics, the epithet "PC" becomes an eraser, making liberal ideas nothing more than knee-jerk euphemisms and real-life problems nothing more than fictions...
During the Red Scare, simply questioning the American government made you a Communist. Today, any challenge to traditional, white, male, heterosexual hegemony makes you a PC totalitarian. Just as the "Commie" epithet was used three decades ago to suspend rational political discourse, so today is the catch-phrase "PC" bandied about carelessly to dismiss any argument conservatives find distasteful...
Reducing every progressive cause to the "PC" epithet is a powerful conservative tool. It makes people uncomfortable about expressing liberal ideas, shuts off reasonable debate with an unanswerable charge and erases serious social problems by suggesting that they are fictitious products of some radical leftist agenda...