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  • I usually dislike this sort of editorialising, but you’ve pointed it out, and I can’t say I disagree.

    people detained in tented camps

    If we’re calling the “tented camps” at Guantanamo concentration camps, then these definitely qualify as well.

    The legacy media’s failure to call Nazi salutes and concentration camps what they are is irresponsible and dangerous.

    The only thing you could further do is mention that you’ve editorialised the title in the title itself by [tagging] it.









  • There’s actually a whole class of these words. They’re called heterological words.

    Their opposite, autological (or homological) words are words that do describe themselves. “Autological” is an autological word because it describes itself.

    Here’s a fun question, though: is “heterological” a heterological word? If you say yes, then that means it does not describe itself and therefore it is not heterological. If you say no, then it does describe itself therefore it is heterological. Bit of a head scratcher.

    This is the Grelling-Nelson paradox.