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- 19:49, 31 May 2020 Virtue signaling (hist | edit) [1,047 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "''Wikipedia's'' article on [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtue_signalling virtue signaling] traces its history to its use by academics, but then notes :Virtue signalling ro...")
- 19:13, 31 May 2020 Dog Whistle (hist | edit) [1,533 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "According to ''Wikipedia'', [Dog-whistle politics] is "political messaging employing coded language that appears to mean one thing to the population of the general public at l...")
- 14:59, 1 May 2020 Tyranny (hist | edit) [167 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "20th century definition: cruel and oppressive government or rule (OED). 21st century definition: government by people who pretend to be what they aren't. (Why not?).")
- 00:59, 1 April 2020 Xenophobe (hist | edit) [693 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Someone who is so lacking in the milk of human kindness as to fail to promote the immigration of those on the current list of preferreds of the progressive movement. This def...")
- 00:57, 1 April 2020 Wife (hist | edit) [390 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Sue_Got_Married Peggy and Sue] got married. As bridesmaids, they chose Bob and Ted. The groomsmen were Carol and Alice. When it was all ove...")
- 00:56, 1 April 2020 White Supremacist (hist | edit) [43 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "See Racist. See, also, Supremacist.")
- 00:54, 1 April 2020 White Nationalist (hist | edit) [3,163 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Intended to be a pejorative term, but without having a specific definition so that its use is easier to defend. The term is composed of two somewhat neutral terms. White refe...")
- 00:51, 1 April 2020 Weak Theology (hist | edit) [1,115 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Weak theology is a term invented by a postmodern theologian to describe how he wanted to think of God. Not to be confused with the mathematical term "weak topology" which is a...")
- 00:50, 1 April 2020 U.S. Constitution (hist | edit) [2,445 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "There has always been a powerful, even existential, tension between the established principles of the U.S. Constitution and natural law and our better human aspirations, espec...")
- 00:44, 1 April 2020 Two Party System (hist | edit) [3,057 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The preferred political system by which the will of the people is expressed and/or shaped. The principle purpose of the two party system is to give voters a sense that they ha...")
- 00:43, 1 April 2020 Truth (hist | edit) [934 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Truth is that protean quality of self-determined affirmation of a putative state of reality which is exemplified by Steven Colbert's term "truthiness." Truth takes on the pseu...")
- 00:38, 1 April 2020 Totalitarian (hist | edit) [411 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A person raised in an authoritarian environment who decided to take the ultimate revenge. Or, as Prof. Robert P. George put it (See [https://www.facebook.com/RobertPGeorge/po...")
- 00:32, 1 April 2020 Tolerance (hist | edit) [707 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Tolerance has come to imply a systematic effort to alter one's own natural or cultural reaction to someone else's culture or practice from a state of negative critique to posi...")
- 00:29, 1 April 2020 Thought Control (hist | edit) [2,633 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Thought Control was a hot topic in the mid 20th century, due to the legacy of mass socialist movements such as Nazism and Communism, and to the writing of important dystopian...")
- 00:26, 1 April 2020 Theocracy (hist | edit) [341 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Government by folks who believe that God is the ultimate lawmaker. In the narrowest sense, theocracy is government by folks who have a very limited notion of what God's law is...")
- 00:24, 1 April 2020 Supremacist (hist | edit) [172 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A term which is permitted only in the context of the complete term "White Supremacist", thereby ensuring that it can be used interchangeably with the term "Racist."")
- 00:23, 1 April 2020 Supersidiarity (hist | edit) [76 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A forbidden term. The opposite of subsidiarity, another forbidden term.")
- 00:21, 1 April 2020 Subsidiarity (hist | edit) [2,664 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A forbidden term. The only reason people are not attacked for using terms like "subsidiarity" and "supersidiarity" is that they are complex enough (having 6 and 7 syllables,...")
- 00:20, 1 April 2020 Solipsism (hist | edit) [1,682 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Solipsism, in the traditional sense, is a theory that reality consists solely of a single person (the solipsist) and all of the apparent surrounding reality, including other p...")
- 00:18, 1 April 2020 Sociopath (hist | edit) [2,099 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "People used to use the term "psychopath." Although dictionaries often give slightly different definitions for these two terms, there does not seem to be a substantive technica...")
- 00:16, 1 April 2020 Situational ethics (hist | edit) [618 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A forbidden term. In the antiquated sense, "situational ethics" denotes the idea that different ethical principles apply to different circumstances, and that there are no uni...")
- 00:14, 1 April 2020 Ruling Oligarchy (hist | edit) [2,536 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Extremists in every national political contest in the U.S. tend to blame their failures on the putative existence of a ruling elite, or oligarchy. This is generally regarded a...")
- 00:12, 1 April 2020 Right-Wing (hist | edit) [2,701 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The terms "right-wing" and "left-wing" derive, according to Wikipedia (see [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Right-wing_politics#History history of right-wing politics]) from the...")
- 00:09, 1 April 2020 Republican (hist | edit) [994 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In contrast to a Democrat, a Republican is someone who believes in maximizing opportunity, even at the expense of increasing disparity of lifestyle. While many other principle...")
- 00:06, 1 April 2020 Reproductive Health Services (hist | edit) [651 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Any medical services that pertain to human reproduction, especially its enjoyment and its suppression. See Reproductive Health. The most commonly used forms of reproductive h...")
- 00:04, 1 April 2020 Reproductive Health (hist | edit) [522 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The ability to have sex without consequences, like having children or catching a venereal disease. In psychology it refers to the ability to have sex as one chooses without su...")
- 00:02, 1 April 2020 Red State (hist | edit) [100 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "One of the 50 states which tends, predominantly, to vote Republican in state and national elections.")
- 00:01, 1 April 2020 Red Pill (hist | edit) [252 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An expression featured in the movie "The Matrix", used, in the movie, to represent a decision to live outside of the Matrix, a programmed virtual reality, or, alternatively (i...")
- 00:00, 1 April 2020 Red (hist | edit) [96 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "An outdated political term, referring to a member of the Communist Party or one of its cognates.")
- 23:59, 31 March 2020 Reality (hist | edit) [402 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The word has two primary meanings. 1) Reality is a figment of the imagination (of, for example, a philosopher, a scientist or a theologian). 2) Reality is whatever the top p...")
- 23:58, 31 March 2020 Realist (hist | edit) [1,324 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A forbidden word. In the antiquated sense, a realist is someone who believes reality (in the antiquated sense) is coherent, governed by mathematical laws. There are three ki...")
- 23:55, 31 March 2020 Racist (hist | edit) [960 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Someone who disagrees with the social or political innovations of ethnic minority life mandated by the progressive movement. This definition supersedes that of Merriam-Webste...")
- 23:51, 31 March 2020 Progressivism (hist | edit) [1,085 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Progressivism denotes the political philosophy that leads to human progress. It is forbidden to question what this means or to ask for a coherent list of principles that char...")
- 23:42, 31 March 2020 Postmodern Fable 1 (hist | edit) [2,974 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In the spring of the year, the time when kings go forth to battle, David sent Jo'ab, and his servants with him, and all israel out on campaign; and they ravaged the Ammonites...")
- 23:40, 31 March 2020 Pro-Life (hist | edit) [1,885 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "One of those elusive terms that is claimed by almost everybody. Consider the following opposition positions: Conservative "pro-life": Finding important - possibly even essent...")
- 23:35, 31 March 2020 Postmodern Fable 3 (hist | edit) [3,020 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Biblical Prolog (''Luke 10:30-34'')''' A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and he fell among robbers, who stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him...")
- 23:34, 31 March 2020 Postmodern Fable 2, a Reflection (hist | edit) [4,475 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Genesis 11, which opens with the brief account of the civilization that produced the Tower of Babel. (I speculate, though I haven't been able to verify, that the phrase "tower...")
- 23:33, 31 March 2020 Postmodern Fable 2 (hist | edit) [13,884 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "'''Biblical Prolog (Genesis 11:1-4)''' Now the whole earth had one language and few words. And as men migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and set...")
- 23:31, 31 March 2020 Post-structuralism (hist | edit) [717 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "So, what do you do if you flunked philosophy and science? If you have a political/ideological bent, and perhaps a flair for glib phrases, you invent "post-structuralism", a su...")
- 23:25, 31 March 2020 Polysemantic (hist | edit) [1,404 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Having multiple meanings. This is one of the more obscure words in the English language. This is the adjective form. The noun form, polysemant, is even more obscure. Example...")
- 23:22, 31 March 2020 Political Correctness (hist | edit) [363 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Political correctness is a term used generally by skeptics who stand at least partly aloof from post-modern progressivism. True believers regard the term as hostile and its us...")
- 23:21, 31 March 2020 Plutocracy (hist | edit) [58 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Rule by the class of people who have the most possessions.")
- 20:58, 31 March 2020 POE (hist | edit) [4,756 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "There are surely many other possible acronyms and many possible names for the Party of Empire. That we should end up with an acronym like POE is perhaps coincidental. We could...")
- 20:52, 31 March 2020 PAC Man (hist | edit) [4,713 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "If you happen to be a geek, or know one well, you may know that the Japanese company, Namco, created one of the first arcade games, known as [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pac...")
- 20:50, 31 March 2020 Oligarchy (hist | edit) [93 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Rule by a small group of people who agree with each other that no one else should have power.")
- 20:49, 31 March 2020 Obamoncology (hist | edit) [2,024 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Obamoncology is the sub-discipline of Oncology devoted to excising the cancer of capitalism from society. In a brilliant alliance between Mr. Glibb and Dr. Prepper, the Americ...")
- 20:47, 31 March 2020 Normal (hist | edit) [495 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A forbidden word, or a word that means one thing today and another tomorrow. One of the challenges of the scientist is to carry out his or her work without saying a word abou...")
- 20:46, 31 March 2020 Nomocracy (hist | edit) [1,208 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The standard definition of Nomocracy is "government by the rule of law or a legal code." It should be noted, however, that the interposition of a large bureaucracy interpretin...")
- 20:44, 31 March 2020 Nominalist (hist | edit) [799 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "A forbidden word. A nominalist, in the antiquated sense, is someone who believes that the laws of nature are figments of a person's imagination. In that sense, they are purel...")
- 20:41, 31 March 2020 Newspeak (hist | edit) [635 bytes] Root (talk | contribs) (Created page with "Newspeak is an archaic term, invented by George Orwell, to prophesy our post-modern linguistic usage, whose fundamental purpose is to control the social and political narrativ...")