[Ads-l] aggression

[Laurence Horn]

> On Apr 29, 2016, at 5:06 PM, Jonathan Lighter <wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
> 
> This  is the word CNN prefers to "aggressiveness."  They keep referring to
> the unfriendly stunt-flying by Russian pilots over American ships and
> planes as "Russian aggression." This is especially startling when they say
> things like, "Coming up: Russian aggression!"
> 
> I suppose it has a ring to it.  Some of us, however, were sensitized early
> to a more violent sense of "Russian aggression."
> 
> JL
> 

You'd feel a bit more comfortable if it were "Russian microaggression"?

LH

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