5 Feet of Fury

Jim Goad: I have met the enemy, and he is easily terrified

Yep.

Jim Goad writes:

As someone who traffics in words, particularly how people toss them like rocks at one another in the culture wars, I’ve noticed that two of the left’s favorite words over the past few years—“problematic” and “unacceptable”—have yielded to the starker and more panicky “horrifying” and “terrifying.”

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