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glad im not the only one!😂

Frrrr. I was getting so bored and confused I just decided to look up an explanation and a summary instead of continuing this slog of a chapter.

Socialists, Marxists and full Communists “remove” political deserters too. This is not just a racist process.

No matter the system, for it all basically boils down to Power protecting Power

Thanks for your comment! It's sort of thrilling when someone other than my students watch something I made.

@@melanielamb-lee2069 its really helped me

Thrilled someone other than my students watched this :)

@@melanielamb-lee2069 I was super confused on Goldstein’s book and I watched this and it helped a lot (I also loved the little drawings)

It certainly could be used in a loaded way. If you call a politician "demented," you're implying that he or she is crazy--not a positive thing.

@@melanielamb-lee2069 yea thank you it was from the Martin Luther King Jr. speech when he got stabbed and talked about how it was a demented woman

@@lisabethcastro Well, dementia is a real medical condition, so it's possible a doctor could call someone with dementia "demented." I think in the case of the stabbing, the woman in question really was mentally ill. So most of us would look at the term "demented" and find it very negative, but MLK Jr. might have just been indicating she had a medical problem. I also don't know whether it applies with this word, but the shades of meaning around a word can change over time, particularly if the word is describing something negative; in other words, a word used to describe a medical condition over time may grow to have a negative connotation. I don't know whether "demented" was a more acceptable term in the 60s. You might try going to books.google.com/ngrams and typing in dementia,demented to see how frequency of use has changed over the last century. (The Ngram viewer is loads of fun, by the way.)

I haven't used the term sensing verb before, but a quick web search says they'd fit into the category of "linking verbs," or verbs that show being rather than doing (and by "being," I mean they show what you are, as in "I am a teacher" or "I am happy."). A test one of my teachers suggested to me back in the day for linking verbs was to put them in the sentence "She _______ugly" or "We __________ugly." I'd class "like" and "want" as action verbs because 1) they show what you do, and 2) they are transitive, meaning they have a direct object: I want candy. I like cats. It is beyond bizarre to be writing this comment. My kids think it's hilarious that the pandemic has caused me to start a KZbin channel :)