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Oxford Dictionaries has declared "post-truth" as its 2016 international word of the year, reflecting what it called a "highly-charged" political 12 months. It is defined as an adjective relating to circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than emotional appeals. Its selection follows June's Brexit vote [in the UK], and the US presidential election. Post-truth, which has become associated with the phrase "post-truth politics", was chosen ahead of other political terms, including "Brexiteer" and "alt-right".
[...] Oxford Dictionaries says post-truth is thought to have been first used in 1992. However, it says the frequency of its usage increased by 2,000% in 2016 compared with last year.
Mr Grathwohl said: "Fuelled by the rise of social media as a news source and a growing distrust of facts offered up by the establishment, post-truth as a concept has been finding its linguistic footing for some time," he said.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37995600
https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-of-the-year/word-of-the-year-2016
Would you have chosen something different?
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Thursday November 17 2016, @10:03PM
Trump is no product of a GOP stratagem. The GOP stratagem produced about, what, 16 other candidates they thought could beat Hillary? Trump was a primal scream.
I'm not so sure Trump is material to that cultural suicide, Azuma. It's hard to accept the pre-Trump cultural reality of the Kardashians, the Osbournes, and Miley Cyrus as "healthy."
Somebody in one of those post-election analyses linked to last week made a really good point about our cultural reality. Most of the cultural battles progressives have been fighting for for generations have been won. Gay marriage is accepted by most people now. Abortion is legal. Recreational marijuana use is legal now in more and more states. That's a real sea change.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Thursday November 17 2016, @10:26PM
Yeah? And now we have Mike fucking Pence as VP, which means just plain P given he's basically Cheney if Cheney found religion, and we have Steve motherloving Bannon setting strategy. Oh, and a SCOTUS that will get anywhere from one to three people worse than Scalia in short order at this rate.
That "sea change" can be rolled back with interest. That motherfucker Pence thinks he can electrocute me into not liking other women, do you get this?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @07:38AM
Sup bitch.
--MikeeUSA
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Friday November 18 2016, @05:26PM
Not too much, but you're gonna love this: I'm an editor now :) Still training but in a few days I'll be helping the flow of stories along.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday November 18 2016, @02:49AM
> Most of the cultural battles progressives have been fighting for for generations have been won.
Average black household wealth is still just ~7% of average white household wealth [pewresearch.org] and most of that is in a single depreciating asset - a car.
Life is unfair, but when the unfairness is so unevenly distributed we still have a long way to go.