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| − | An '''alarmist''' is | + | An '''alarmist''' is one who tries to alarm others, especially by using exaggerations. |
In modern usage, such people can fall under the following categories: | In modern usage, such people can fall under the following categories: | ||
Revision as of 02:08, March 19, 2008
An alarmist is one who tries to alarm others, especially by using exaggerations.
In modern usage, such people can fall under the following categories:
- Bloggers
- Global Warming alarmists
- Certain Left-Wing websites
- Nationalist governments which seek to gain the blind trust of the populist by way of inventing threats to national security. See Nazi and 1984.
- Extremists, both liberal and conservative