In our current climate of sometimes intense vitriol, reappropriation -- by which a group of people reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group -- can tame uncivil discourse, finds a new study by political scientists and a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis.Article Correctness Is Author's Responsibility: Toward a more civil discourse
In our current climate of sometimes intense vitriol, reappropriation -- by which a group of people reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group -- can tame uncivil discourse, finds a new study by political scientists and a law professor at Washington University in St. Louis.
