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Allen_D@Allen_D
August 05, 2025
The Linguistic Kill-Switch: Inside the Modern Propaganda Playbook
The next time someone sneers “conspiracy theorist,” “anti-vaxxer,” “climate denier,” “far right,” “hate speech,” “terrorist,” or the ever-popular “racist,” understand what they are really saying: stop thinking.
These words are a linguistic kill-switch—engineered to short-circuit thought by triggering a reflexive emotional spasm.
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Danielle Smith should defund the University of Lethbridge over Frances Widdowson's arrest
The clash over residential schools debate and ‘unsafe ideas’ is turning Canadian universities into ideological battlegrounds.
https://www.westernstandard.news/opinion/andrus-danielle-smith-should-defund-the-university-of-lethbridge-over-frances-widdowsons-arrest/73032
