Naive – Though there are many cases of willful ignorance, genuinely not knowing something isn’t necessarily bad. Nobody can be expected to know everything, and often those naive people have not had the opportunity to acquire that information (ex. children, uneducated people). Yet, being described as naive comes off as suggesting a person as childish or stupid.
Propaganda – Propaganda can have positive influences (ex. encouraging people to quit smoking.) But people usually use the word “propaganda” when they refer to messages meant to manipulate people for nefarious purposes.
I think this should literally mean simply young or undeveloped, but often used as a slur to indicate inappropriately immature behaviour. Also regularly found coupled with “delinquent”.
Good one! There are many very legitimate reasons to discriminate against various people and things. If you receive two job offers, for example, you need to be discriminating to decide which one you should accept. You certainly need to discriminate when deciding if you should go out on a date with someone.
Historically, tyrant meant head of state who was not seen as the embodiment of that peoples’ principal god - i.e., a secular executive. Apparently, some of these folks misused their executive power so the word took on a negative connotation. I swear, you fuck one goat…
Bureaucracy is simply the administrative structure required to run a government at scale. I was reminded of this as I was helping my son with his history homework - bureaucracy, and it’s effectiveness or level of corruption, was consistently referenced as a key criteria to a successful empire over the long term…
