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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 17 2016, @11:00PM
jmorris, such a tool, so little clue about his own lack of perspective. He is a bastion of insanity and self-reinforcing bullshit. The irony is that he is the one that can't open his mind, and parrots propaganda and conservative conspiracies time after time.
Take note any new readers, jmorris sometimes sounds like there is a good point buried in there somewhere, but its washed away by all the crazy. Ad hominem FTW!