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I am educated by you about the slur. Prior, I had little idea other than the phrase did seem to have a stink to it. But I wonder how journalism at large recognizes this? Is it seen as a slur at large or are the perpetrators able to hide behind "ignorance" that there's nothing wrong there?

Likewise I sense the same stink whenever the word "leftist" is used, as well as the abbreviated "lib."

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Hardcore Republicans knowтАФas it has been a longstanding policy within the party to smear Democrats in this way. And as Twitter CEO, Dorsey regularly dealt directly with GOP officials in DC. He would not have missed their messaging practices, especially as they would have clashed grammatically and sonically with those of the leading Democrats he regularly dealt with. He has made his choice, here, and it is a telling one.

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ItтАЩs a democratic republic.

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