Epithet
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Is Fake News Here to Stay?CAMBRIDGE – The term “fake news” has become an
epithet
that US President Donald Trump attaches to any unfavorable story.
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Now by taking the biblical
epithet "
abomination" and attaching it to the ultimate image of innocence, a baby, this joke short circuits the emotional wiring behind the debate and it leaves the audience with the opportunity, through their laughter, to question its validity.
But the depiction of ideas as being somehow “un-American” has always been an epithet, not an argument.
If free trade is to regain the support of statesmen who now hesitate over liberalizing trade with developing countries, the myths that turn outsourcing into an
epithet
must be countered.
Unlike in France, however, the word “socialist” is an
epithet
for most Americans.
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