Leonard Pitts Jr.: It’s hard to fight from a crouch
by Leonard Pitts Jr., Tribune Content Agency
May 08, 2022
2 minutes
So let’s talk about That Word.
Meaning the word the political left was using to define itself until the political right got hold of it and made it an object of ridicule. The word that quickly became unusable, even faintly embarrassing.
No, the word is not “woke.”
It is, rather, “liberal,” a word that, linguist Geoffrey Nunberg argues in his 2006
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