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by word-reader 2503 days ago
It really is shocking how much has changed in the past 10 years. This post could have been mainstream late-night comedy, but it's not just that the targets have shifted: it's still OK, good even, to attack Sarah Palin, you just can't do it using certain words. The bigger change seems to be this obsession with words having some kind of incantatory, emanating power (even 9 year old words on a Twitter account), along with the associated fiending about the private thoughts of whoever posted.