Monthly Archives: May 2015

Click here if you’d like your latent racist beliefs “proved” by “science”

Yesterday, I had the misfortune of reading a blog post presenting an analysis of popular music lyrics using language related metrics. Earlier today, I was cringing as the post and the Complex article about it popped up repeatedly as friends and

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Posted in Language and race, Technology and language

Anti-gay politics and the word homosexual

Throughout my life, I’ve heard words referring to gay people tossed around as casual insults, often used as weapons against people who are not themselves gays or lesbians (see, for example, the use of “no homo“). It’s behavior like this that

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Posted in Ideology and social change, Language and politics

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