politically sensitive labels

Sam Clements SClements at NEO.RR.COM
Thu Mar 11 00:36:47 UTC 2004


nanny-state, junk science, activist judges, class warfare, responsibility,
family values, political correctness, secular humanism, liberal media,
choice, etc.

I would suspect that users of these words are more "conservative" than
"liberal."

I must admit that I stole most of them from on-line articles.

Sam Clements

----- Original Message -----
From: "Duane Campbell" <dcamp911 at JUNO.COM>
> I've been talking recently with some of my pick-up drivin;, coon
> shootin', Old Milwaukee drinkin' friends the unique language that
> liberals use. We are working on a list of words that are peculiar to
> liberals. This is primarily a time saving effort. When you hear one of
> these words, you can immediately identify the speaker as a liberal and
> move on to more important things without needing to listen further.  A
> partial list would be: marginalize, arrogant, the ever popular big
> business, facilitator, disenfranchise, empowering, greedy, victimize.
>
> Seriously, though these are all mainstream words, they seem to be
> primarily in the liberal lexicon. And perhaps it's like the Southerner
> who thinks Yankees have an accent, I can't think of a comperable list for
> conservative speakers.



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