TDPS: Time for a REAL Progressive Language Takeover...For-progress, or anti-progress?

[celtics23]

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[aliciaabs19]

1. I will use "anti-progress" from now on

[tins0404]

2. AMEN!

Why can't progressives ever get it together on language?

[Weird Liberal Head]

3. Just call the cons what I always do...

...regressives.

[grahamhgreen]

4. I like it and will use it. Language is critical. Note that Obama tends to use Republican

Framing in his arguments, undermining pro-progress positions.....

The tax cuts are not cuts at all, they are deferments at best, etc.

[theFrankFactor]

5. Great points, all. See George Lakoff.

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[sulphurdunn]

6. Just a thought, but

I think it's important to call a thing not only by its right name but also by the most descriptive form of it. To call a position "anti-progressive" is vague and not qualitative, since there are different beliefs about what progress is. However, a word like "bigoted" or "prejudiced" is precise, and while such qualities may be denied (doing so also has the added advantage of putting the denier on the defensive) their denotations and connotations are not readily debatable.