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| | ** by the same token, ''the press'' now signifies the entire news industry, rather than merely the machine for transferring ink from movable type onto paper. | | ** by the same token, ''the press'' now signifies the entire news industry, rather than merely the machine for transferring ink from movable type onto paper. |
| | * "civil rights" used to refer to ensuring equality between the races, but now, to organizations like the [[ACLU]], it involves ridiculous causes like promotion of the [[gay agenda]] and pro-abortion rights | | * "civil rights" used to refer to ensuring equality between the races, but now, to organizations like the [[ACLU]], it involves ridiculous causes like promotion of the [[gay agenda]] and pro-abortion rights |
| − | * "gay" once simply meant carefree and happy, but has been deliberately distorted in meaning by Liberals and atheists to further the [[Homosexual agenda]] | + | * "gay" once meant "noble, good", then "carefree and happy", and has taken on the meanings of dissolute, promiscuous; frivolous, hedonistic (16th century), as "homosexual" as of the 1920s, and "Foolish, stupid, socially inappropriate or disapproved of" as of the 1970s. <ref>OED</ref> |
| | * Several terms meaning "weak", "weak-willed", or "[[effeminate]] male", including the word "faggot", are now proclaimed "offensive" by practitioners of the [[homosexual agenda]]. | | * Several terms meaning "weak", "weak-willed", or "[[effeminate]] male", including the word "faggot", are now proclaimed "offensive" by practitioners of the [[homosexual agenda]]. |
| | * "nice" once meant "foolish, silly, simple", and then later "exact, pedantic" rather than its current meaning of "pleasant" | | * "nice" once meant "foolish, silly, simple", and then later "exact, pedantic" rather than its current meaning of "pleasant" |