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The 'warspeak' permeating everyday language puts us all in the trenches

  • Written by Robert Myers, Professor of Anthropology & Public Health, Alfred University
The 'warspeak' permeating everyday language puts us all in the trenchesIt's a linguistic battlefield out there.Complot/Shutterstock.com

In a manifesto posted online shortly before he went on to massacre 22 people at an El Paso Walmart, Patrick Crusius cited the “invasion” of Texas by Hispanics. In doing so, he echoed President Trump’s rhetoric of an illegal immigrant “invasion.”

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