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Post-Truth – an adjective defined as "relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief."

https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/word-o...-year-2016

Explains liberal arguments pertaining to such issues as gun control, global warming, Keynesian economics, feminist ideology, etc.

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Post-truth has a synonym; Liberalism.

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never heard of it.

Here are the other candidates considered by Oxford Dictionaries. What sort of people use these words often?

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(12-05-2016 06:32 PM)storm Wrote:  

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never heard of it.

Here are the other candidates considered by Oxford Dictionaries. What sort of people use these words often?

You must not have followed the election in the U.S.at all. Alt-right was used by the radical left on a regular basis as a derogatory term in the attempt to denigrate conservatives.

Now that I think of of it, at least half of these new words are an attempt by liberals to inject their view of the world into society (post-truth, alt-right, glass cliff, Brexiteer, woke, and Latinx).

So the answer to your question of "What sort of people use these words often?" is . . . liberals. Stated another way, deluded people with too much time on their hands who wish to re-make the world in their own image.

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(12-05-2016 06:32 PM)storm Wrote:  

Glass cliff = a woman ascends to a leadership position where the risk of failure is high.

I expect to hear this one being bandied about in female "intellectual" circles soon. I need a witty retort.

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(12-05-2016 06:32 PM)storm Wrote:  What sort of people use these words often?

I have no idea but somebody should make a list. I'd like to avoid those sorts of people.

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What they don't mention in the definition of "glass cliff" is that the most "challenging circumstance" leading to a high risk of failure is having a shiela in charge.

I will make sure not to use any of these words.