Loaded Language Quotes

There may be no more-radioactive term in the English language than what we now almost always refer to as the 'n-word' - itself a coy means of linguistic sidestepping that is a sign of how perilous it is to utter the thing in full, even in conversations about language.

How you frame a debate is very important. When you call someone an 'illegal alien,' you've already stacked the deck against them.

'Realistic' is a loaded word for me. Anyone who uses the word 'realistic' is all bad.

Perhaps like the many and various meanings of the word "we," liberals use the word "unsubstantiated" to mean "tested repeatedly and proved true."

I start looking for adjectives in news reporting, and if there are too many of them, if they're all sort of repeatedly designed to influence my thinking in a certain way, I start getting concerned. I'm leery of people trying to paint a picture in a certain way.

All words are prejudices.

Words are loaded pistols.

As with 'feminism,' not to mention 'liberalism' and 'conservatism,' 'political correctness' tends to mean what you want it to mean, which also pretty much amounts to utter meaninglessness.

Oligarch is just a nonsense word. What does it mean? I don't like it.