Language redefinition alert

  • Posted by Brian
  • September 13, 2007

Spotted on RABid this morning:

Greed is not a dirty word

Really? From the Houghton-Mifflin Thesaurus:

greed, noun

Excessive desire for more than one needs or deserves: acquisitiveness, avarice, avariciousness, avidity, covetousness, cupidity, graspingness.

I know it’s a right-wing specialty to “newspeak” the English language to their benefit, but this is pretty ridiculous. I seem to remember some bit of advice in the Bible about not coveting your neighbor’s stuff. Hell, greed was explicitly listed as one of Christianity’s seven deadly sins.

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September 15, 2007 at 4:54 pm

Matt’s been watching one too many Michael Douglas movies.