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We see the world, as Burke told us, through terministic screens. This insight, along, perhaps, with Orwell's "Politics and the English Language," as well as widespread belief in the (now-discredited) Sapir-Whorf hypothesis as well as General Semantics, led my generation to fixate on changing language in hopes of changing the world. It is not, of course, that simple; language is neither totally irrelevant to social change (as some "realists" might say) nor is changing language an appropriate substitute for normal or contentious politics in liberal democracies.

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Inspired by the discussion about to-protest or not-to-protest the NCA hotel, and reflecting on the social movement legacies (or an ambiguous legacy, as Zizek calls it) of 1968, I found this article by David Zirin, one of my favorites, about the politics of protest of the Olympics "shut up and play" athlete censorship policy worth a mention:

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An audio tape has surfaced from the Kent State shootings, and some believe it provides evidence that the National Guardsmen were ordered to fire:

"The tape was released Tuesday by Alan Canfora, 58, one of nine students wounded in the 1970 shootings. He played two versions of the tape — the original and an amplified version — in which he says a Guard officer issues the command,'Right here! Get Set! Point! Fire!'"

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