{"id":13677,"date":"2021-07-03T20:04:19","date_gmt":"2021-07-04T03:04:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/?p=13677"},"modified":"2021-07-03T20:37:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-04T03:37:35","slug":"words-matter-or-not-the-biden-vocabulary-of-the-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victorhanson.com\/wordpress\/words-matter-or-not-the-biden-vocabulary-of-the-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Words Matter\u2014Or Not: The Biden Vocabulary of the Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Armed insurrection\u2014a motley mob riot with no leaders, no firearms, no plans, and resulting in five fatalities, four from natural causes and one shot while unarmed by an unnamed police officer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Assault\u2014anything but 120 days of rioting, looting and arson, $2 billion in damage, 25 killed, and 14,000 arrested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bipartisan\u2014you are if you hate Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Cages\u2014overcrowded border detention \u201cfacilities\u201d created by the Obama administration and useful to the Biden team\u2019s open-borders agenda. Otherwise known as \u201ccages\u201d between January 20, 2017-January 20, 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenge\u2014engineered utter chaos on the border.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Circling back\u2014just circling and circling\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Collusion\u2014the projection of the crime of the guilty onto those innocent of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diversity\u2014coerced uniformity of thought and expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Equity\u2014the plan where everybody ends up the same except those who oversee it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gender\u2014what people with degrees call sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Herd immunity\u2014once a canon of epidemiology, then taboo, now an inconvenient truth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Inclusion\u2014mandatory state alienation of a majority of the population.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Infrastructure\u2014borrowing trillions for anything but roads and bridges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Latinix\u2014unknown, maybe a gladiatorial character in some long forgotten Roman graphic novel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Noncitizen\u2014now used as if all legal US residents crossed the Southern border illegally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Root causes\u2014an abstraction used to evade the concrete evidence in front of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scott Atlas\u2014the Nemesis following Dr. Fauci\u2019s hubris.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Unity\u2014uniting half the country against the other half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Woke\u2014body snatched.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson \/\/ Private Papers Armed insurrection\u2014a motley mob riot with no leaders, no firearms, no plans, and resulting in five fatalities, four from natural causes and one shot while unarmed by an unnamed police officer. Assault\u2014anything but 120 days of rioting, looting and arson, $2 billion in damage, 25 killed, and 14,000 arrested. 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