[Ads-l] extremist-adjacent

[George Thompson]

*"sort of* extremist-adjacent" seems a strange construction to me.

But I'm just an English major.

GAT

On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 11:57 AM ADSGarson O'Toole <
adsgarsonotoole at gmail.com> wrote:

> Jonathan Lighter wrote:
> > Deadline White House, MSNBC:
> >
> > "How sort of extremist-adjacent some of [the members of Congress] were."
> >
> > Another one of those lexicosyntactical shortcuts. Cf. "food-insecure,"
> > "shovel-ready," etc.
>
> I have seen this construct: 'group'-adjacent for a few years. Here are
> two examples from twitter in 2016: "alt-right adjacent" and "SJW
> adjacent".
>
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_GetToKnowDonald_status_769318254300962816&d=DwIFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v2Wtu7DQZxSBMSJv-oEMNg&m=-d43QgoGm-TtDWGnQ90OYnXG5fDmlZSG8TomFF-4_k4&s=PO6tsqQjMt8_tVa5Bakv5eh6_2bDAP98oJqgQdgoEu8&e=
> Timestamp: 7:38 PM · Aug 26, 2016
> Twitter handle: WhatHasDonaldDoneNow @GetToKnowDonald
> [Begin excerpt]
> www.gettoknowdonaldtrump.trumperism. Lunatics take over the asylum.
> Lifelong GOP wz always alt-right adjacent #CTL
> [End excerpt]
>
>
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__twitter.com_HatredIsMyMuse_status_785018988178714624&d=DwIFaQ&c=slrrB7dE8n7gBJbeO0g-IQ&r=v2Wtu7DQZxSBMSJv-oEMNg&m=-d43QgoGm-TtDWGnQ90OYnXG5fDmlZSG8TomFF-4_k4&s=x4R7p376KRRa15nOoItifPtuwPfGOlk2NdpW6jHB60g&e=
> Timestamp: 3:28 AM · Oct 9, 2016
> Twitter handle: Action Economist @HatredIsMyMuse
> [Begin excerpt]
> some of the people doing this are SJW adjacent
> [End excerpt]
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-- 
George A. Thompson
Author of A Documentary History of "The African Theatre", Northwestern
Univ. Pr., 1998.

But when aroused at the Trump of Doom / Ye shall start, bold kings, from
your lowly tomb. . .
L. H. Sigourney, "Burial of Mazeen", Poems.  Boston, 1827, p. 112

The Trump of Doom -- also known as The Dunghill Toadstool.  (Here's a
picture of his great-grandfather.)
http://www.parliament.uk/worksofart/artwork/james-gillray/an-excrescence---a-fungus-alias-a-toadstool-upon-a-dunghill/3851

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