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erasmuse on Nov 10, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Secret Service Agent Sentenced In Scheme Related T...

I don't have a dog in this fight but surely neither the government nor anyone else gets to define what ordinary English words mean.

alphydan on Nov 10, 2017 [–]

Of course they do. What do you call: "Taking a person's life with your own hands?"

- For a white westerner: Crime, Murder, etc

- For the government/military: war, being a hero, etc

- For "brown" people in the wrong countries: Terrorism

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