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expurgation

noun as in catharsis

noun as in defecation

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“Censorship and expurgation whether by government or private groups may seem right in the moment, but the future rarely judges them with favor.”

This rhetoric is not simply dehumanizing — it also characterizes its subject as fit only for elimination, expurgation, exile or extermination.

From Salon

During the 1990s furor, Steven Alexander, who is white and Jewish, was one of many players who wrote letters opposing any expurgation.

Thanks to Trump’s daily expurgations, I stand corrected.

Exactly who was Sam Harris protecting in this flagrant and sanctimonious act of expurgation?

From Salon

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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