Talking Like the CIA Is Bad for You
There’s a guide at wordsaboutwar.org to some of the standard war language used for big bucks by professional propagandists and for free by almost everyone else who has normalized it and not given it another thought. Manufacturing tools for mass murder is called “the defense industry,” those murdered are called “collateral damage,” the purpose is labeled “the national interest,” etc.
The trouble with talking like the Pentagon or CNN is not just that it helps to — in the words of
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