Overused and misused words.

[BT]

At the top of my list i would have:

Neocon
facscist
racist

What's on your list?

[chickencounter]

BDS.

[BT]

Hey chicky!

Yeah BDS is used a lot.

[Michael Tee]

Islamofascist
collateral damage
War of Civilizations
terrorist
freedom
liberty
detainee
partisan, bipartisan, non-partisan

[BT]

Is terrorist misused? How about freedom fighter?

or people's revolution?

[sirs]

Torture
Nazi
Neocon
Big (insert whatever corporation/company here)

[BT]

Yeah i agree corporations get a bad rap, mostly from class warfarists, who ran out of things to say.

Consider the majority of corporations in this country are mom and pop operations trying to eke out a living in complaince of the tax regulations.

[Michael Tee]

<<Consider the majority of corporations in this country are mom and pop operations trying to eke out a living in complaince of the tax regulations. >>

Well I think that Ma and Pa Halliburton have finally struck it rich enough to retire to that chicken farm they always wanted.

[Michael Tee]

<<Yeah i agree corporations get a bad rap, mostly from class warfarists, who ran out of things to say.    Consider the majority of corporations in this country are mom and pop operations trying to eke out a living in complaince of the tax regulations. >>

Do you know of any class warriors who have been referring to mom and pop operations when they indict corporate interests and their influence in government?

Because I can't think of a single one.

[sirs]

Yeah i agree corporations get a bad rap, mostly from class warfarists, who ran out of things to say.  Consider the majority of corporations in this country are mom and pop operations trying to eke out a living in complaince of the tax regulations.

Precisely.  Might I also add to my list the word "codeword", not often used, but when used, is nearly always misused in the attempt to distort and redefine other terms, such as "states rights"

[Michael Tee]

<<Is terrorist misused? How about freedom fighter?>>

Well, freedom was on my list of misused words.  It's misused alone and it's misused in combination with other words.  Fighter is one of those other words.

<<or people's revolution?>>

No, I don't think it was misused or overused.  But I don't think it has the same literal meaning to a Communist that an anti-Communist might want to give to it just to discredit the Revolution.

[BT]

Mikey says: Do you know of any class warriors who have been referring to mom and pop operations when they indict corporate interests and their influence in government?

Can you show me where people who go on and on about corporations being evil specifically exclude the majority, made up of the mom and pops?

Didn't think so.

[Michael Tee]

EOM.

(I put EOM in the body of the message because the program wouldn't accept the post without a text message in the body.)

[BT]

I'll agree patriot is misused as well as overused.

[Michael Tee]

<<Can you show me where people who go on and on about corporations being evil specifically exclude the majority, made up of the mom and pops?

<<Didn't think so.>>

I think most writers and speakers writing or speaking about the influence of corporations on the media, on US foreign policy, on the political process in general, assume that their readers have the brain-power to figure out that they are not referring to Stella and Louise's used clothing store on Atlantic Avenue.  Point taken, though - -  could be a hugely unwarranted assumption.