Here is an excerpt of an essay in The New Republic by Steven Fucker—I mean Pinker—on our fencing off certain words into the unspeakables pin. Here he speaks on progressives’ own cursing newords [11. Neword: Neologism of the word neologism.]
“Progressive writers have pointed to this gap to argue that linguistic taboos are absurd. A true moralist, they say, should hold that violence and inequality are ‘obscene,’ not sex and excretion. And yet, since the 1970s, many progressives have imposed linguistic taboos of their own, such as the stigma surrounding [nigger] and casual allusions to sexual desire or sexual attractiveness. So even people who revile the usual bluenoses can become gravely offended by their own conception of bad language. The question is, why?”
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