Our Modern Tower of Babel

This is a riveting and disheartening tweet-thread, begun when Brent Williams asked a rather simple question: “Name all the words that have a different meaning now then they did in 2019.”

Brent

Check out the thread. Many of these suggestions seem spot-on. No wonder we have such a difficult time talking with each other. No wonder so many have given up trying to converse with people from other tribes. We are living in modern-day Babel. Here are some of the many candidates mentioned in the tweet-thread:

Dangerous
Conversion Therapy
Woman. Man.
Phobia
Healthy
Vaccine
Science
Freedom
Pandemic
Insurrection
Vaccine
Racism and Racist
Gain of Function
Public health expert
Gender
Misinformation
Left Wing and Right Wing, Liberal and Conservative
Peaceful
Violence
Fact-Checker
Truth
Equality
Fascist
Conspiracy Theory
Safe & Safety
Trusted
Freedom
Infrastructure
Progressive
Fact
Anti-vaxxer
Inclusion
Diversity
News Reporting
Tolerance

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Erich Vieth

Erich Vieth is an attorney focusing on civil rights (including First Amendment), consumer law litigation and appellate practice. At this website often writes about censorship, corporate news media corruption and cognitive science. He is also a working musician, artist and a writer, having founded Dangerous Intersection in 2006. Erich lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his two daughters.

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