When Norwegian politicians deployed metaphors of “prostitution” and “war” over school closures, they sampled American-style rhetoric. Norway, meet Slippery Slope.
Tag: violence
Figurative fighting
Just because most use of ‘fighting’ in political rhetoric is not literal does not mean that all such ‘fighting’ words are intended to be figurative.
Metaphorical shooting?
In September 2019, Virginia State Senator Amanda Chase (Republican) ran a Facebook ad where she warned gun control advocates that she was “not afraid to shoot” them down: an extraordinarily insensitive choice of wording in light of the exceedingly contentious nature of the issue of gun rights in the USA, along with the regular occurrence…