The little word that wasn't there
Professor Polistra brings just ONE word this time, and it's NOT THERE.
The word is
RIOT.
Prof P was noticing news about yet another RIOT this summer. Suddenly realized: The official Imperial Media have completely Unworded RIOT. It doesn't appear anywhere in the main news sources. It's not a RIOT, it's a "protest".
The word RIOT does appear in foreign sources and in non-Imperial aggregators:
We had several summers of Vibrant RIOTS in the '60s. The media hadn't yet become a tool of totalitarian omnicide. A fact could
occasionally leak through to the public. RIOTS were called RIOTS, not "protests".
Eventually we understood that the '60s riots were NOT spontaneous expressions of public anger. They were GANG WARS, run by
gangs with political overtones. Gangs were claiming neighborhoods, eliminating the police from their territory. This year's RIOTS are showing the same characteristic. BlackLivesMatter is a Soros-controlled gang with a political flavor, and the "unarmed teens" have all turned out to be well-armed gang members.
Labels: defensible spaces, Language update, Make or break