RE: It is never Ok, OP/ED
February 12, 2015 at 9:35 pm
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2015 at 9:38 pm by emilynghiem.)
(February 12, 2015 at 6:47 pm)wiploc Wrote: dictionary.com's first hit for militant is
Quote:adjective
1. vigorously active and aggressive, especially in support of a cause:
To call someone a militant atheist is not to call him or her violent.
Well, in TODAY'S world where there is more media hype attached to shootings, it is no longer a neutral/LITERAL term in political contexts
but has become loaded with connotations that someone is like a Jihadist terrorist or Vigilante.
It SHOULDN'T be that way, noted.
But with everything hyped up on the side of negative politics and violence,
it has become necessary to make distinctions we didn't need to before.
Just reality. Our culture has shifted.
I guess I would go with the word ardent or vigilant or outspoken.
P.S. for those from other countries, I even had to explain how the word FETUS
has become "politicized" in America to bring up negative associations with AGENDA attached to it.
Sad I had to tell someone that who used it in the title of an art sculpture and wondered why it got poor response.
