r/politics • u/Zen1 Oregon • Jul 12 '25

Paywall ICE officers doxxed by antifa, anarchists in Portland, Noem says

https://www.oregonlive.com/crime/2025/07/ice-officers-doxxed-by-antifa-anarchists-in-portland-dhs-says.html
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u/ATLfalcons27 Jul 12 '25

These people always co.opt and corrupt the usage and meaning of words

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u/Neat_On_The_Rocks Jul 12 '25

I genuinely believe Letting them take “fake news” was the true beginning of the end lol

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u/EarthAbundance84 Jul 12 '25 edited Jul 22 '25

Naw, they started this with the word “entitled” back in the 1980s. Now people think “entitled” means its opposite. So that way when people talk about the services we are entitled to (Medicare,Medicaid, Social Security, Unemployment) because we paid for them, they can make it sound like it’s something we’re not entitled to.

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u/dethwysh New York Jul 12 '25

This revelation just blew my fucking mind. Holy fuck. People that go around saying "No One Is Entitled to Anything" are even more garbage than I thought they were.

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u/Llohr Jul 12 '25

That seems like a correct usage of the word, just a stupid, and incorrect, sentiment.

Basically, they use entitled/entitlement to mean *self-entitled/self-entitlement."

They former means one is owed/has a right to something, the latter means acting like one is owed/has a right to something (or everything) without justification.

They take the descriptive word and turn it into an insulting one. E.g. Social Security and Medicare are entitlements because we individually pay for them in advance.