Comment not aimed at you Clive but this is really getting my goat at the moment:
Journalists stop being shit with language - words are meant to be your damned profession - challenge: it isn't "scientific racism", it's *racist pseudoscience*. Calling it the former makes it sound like it is a science and legitimises it.
Jonathan T /
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2024-10-25 15:47:36
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