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The R-Word's Comeback Is a Grim Sign of Our Political Moment

Rolling Stone
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62% Informative

Frida Ghitis : The R-word has become entrenched as a commonplace eptithet.

Ghitis says it crosses a contested boundary, as a deliberate (if uninspired) provocation.

The word has lately served as an anti-virtue-signal, affirmation that the speaker is not bound by the standards of “wokeness,” Ghitis writes.

Frida Ghitis : The use of the slur in the digital public square is so far removed from basic empathy that appeal to decency doesn’t apply.

She says it isolates and stigmatizes developmentally disabled peers; the same ought to go for those of us already old enough to know better.

Ghitis says it's almost fortunate that their naked contempt exposes their goal of disenfranchisement.

VR Score

58

Informative language

52

Neutral language

12

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

67

Offensive language

offensive

Hate speech

likely hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

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