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In an age where religious minorities — especially Pagans — already face real marginalization, suspicion, and in some cases, violence, Brooks’s carelessness, and by proxy, The New York Times’s carelessness for publishing it with little editorial concern, is irresponsible.
The Wild Hunt · Here we go again: David Brooks's misuse of “paganism” as a cultural corruption
**Savage Wit Through the Ages: 20 of the Best Insults in History**
“_In this collection of 20 legendary quotes, we spotlight the zingers that went beyond humor and became unforgettable moments of public triumph._”
https://historycollection.com/savage-wit-through-the-ages-20-of-the-best-insults-in-history/.
History CollectionSavage Wit Through the Ages: 20 of the Best Insults in HistoryFrom world leaders and literary icons to Hollywood stars and sports legends, these bold personalities didn't just make history—they roasted their rivals while doing it.
**“You have such a February face”: Shakespeare’s Most Savage Insults, Explained**
https://www.zmescience.com/feature-post/culture/culture-society/shakespeare-insults/.
ZME Science · “You have such a February face”: Shakespeare’s Most Savage Insults, ExplainedYou don't get this much swagger by holding back your insults. Image via Wikipedia. William Shakespeare gave the English language more than just poetic sonnets and tragic deaths. He also gave us some of the
Goodbye to Gene Hackman, one of the greats. He also made us wonder about the difference between an asshole and a son of a bitch. @stancarey in 2019:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2019/05/03/sweary-semantics-in-the-royal-tenenbaums/
Strong Language · Sweary semantics in The Royal Tenenbaums
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Ellisland, 1791
Dear Sir:
Thou eunuch of language; thou Englishman, who never was south the Tweed; thou servile echo of fashionable barbarisms; thou quack, vending the nostrums of empirical elocution…
—Robert Burns, Letter to a critic
https://news.lettersofnote.com/p/thou-pickle-herring-in-the-puppet
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For more on the r-word's fraught history and usage, see @IvaCheung's 2015 post for Strong Language:
https://stronglang.wordpress.com/2015/01/05/retarded-progress/
Strong Language · Retarded progress
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"The R-word has lately served as an anti-virtue-signal, affirmation that the speaker is not bound by the standards of 'wokeness'..." Miles Klee:
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/r-word-elon-musk-maga-1235226732/
Rolling Stone · The R-Word’s Comeback Is a Grim Sign of Our Political Moment
He can’t even come up with original insults.
The “take a big step back…” line is better with Tom Cruise’s delivery in 2008’s Tropic Thunder (and written by Justin Therox, Ben Stiller and Etan Cohen).
The original: https://youtu.be/gHL5yyKdPaA
From Churl to Cur - here are ten medieval insults! https://www.medievalists.net/2024/12/10-medieval-insults/ #insults #medieval #Englishlanguage #badwords
Medievalists.net · 10 Medieval Insults - Medievalists.netMedieval insults reveal a fascinating glimpse into the sharp wit and social dynamics of the Middle Ages.
Judge suggests that swearing in the workplace is particularly common in the north of England:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/nov/05/swearing-work-common-north-england-judge
The Guardian · Swearing at work is particularly common in north of England, judge says
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#Trump & his allies…[have tried to blame Democrats for]…an overheated political climate that…has led to #PoliticalViolence, ignoring that Trump has long used…[far worse]…language to describe Democrats.
Throughout Thurs night’s interview, Trump…gave a series of #rambling answers in which he flung personal #insults at his critics, at one point relived his 2016 presidential campaign & used dark language to make exaggerated claims about #immigration.
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#GeraldoRivera Goes OFF At #MAGA #Speaker’s #Insults To #Hispanic #Voters at #Trump #MadisonSquareGarden #Rally
#Comedian #TonyHinchcliffe led with a #controversial #opening with #inflammatory #jokes about #PuertoRico, as “a floating #island of #garbage.”
Trump's #campaign #distanced themselves from the #remarks, saying the #views do not represent those of #DonaldTrump.
— Except He read his #speech off of a #teleprompter. Which means they knew in advance.
Mediaite · ‘F*ck These Racists!’ Geraldo Rivera Goes OFF At MAGA Speaker’s Insults To Hispanic Voters at Trump MSG RallyRivera urged Latino voters to back Democratic nominee Vice President Kamala Harris over Trump in a visceral reaction to racially charged remarks at rally.
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#Trump #insults #Detroit while #campaigning in the #city.
Trump claimed the whole #country would end up like the #city if his #Democratic #opponent, #VicePresident #KamalaHarris, is #elected.
“The whole country will be like — you want to know the truth? It’ll be like #Detroit,” the senile #Republican #presidentialnominee said. “Our whole country will end up being like Detroit if she’s your #president.”
https://apnews.com/article/trump-detroit-2382e6f01ea6d236e8a2b755ff150580
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The New Republic · Trump’s Angry, Abusive New Tirade at “Stupid” Kamala Demands ResponseAs Trump unleashes a vicious stream of insults at Kamala Harris even as the media shrugs, a writer who tracks Trump’s misogyny breaks down how overtly anti-woman his strategy has become.
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#ElonMusk, the CEO of #SpaceX, received a medal from the Brazilian govt. But now #Starlink’s Brazilian service is tangled in a mess of #political tensions, #CourtOrders, personal #insults, & #threats to revoke the company’s license to operate in the country. And this drama all started because of another #Musk business that links strangers around the globe: #X, née #Twitter.
#Democrats are lately employing a strategy against Donald #Trump that he has been using effectively against his #opponents for years: #mockery. It started with the vice-presidential candidate Tim #Walz calling Trump “weird” and then bloomed into a bouquet of #insults at the Democratic convention: unserious, self-involved, entitled, obsessed with crowd sizes, “fell asleep at his own trial.” Where did this strategy come from? Will it remain #effective And can it backfire?
