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And yes, this is exactly the kind of thing Pejorative: Echoes of a Nation is about. Maps change. Names change. Language changes. Then one day everyone acts like it was always that way. jasonbu.online/books/pejora...

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online via Bluesky

Trump is renaming Canadian geography and dystopian lines have crawled out of fiction and into the news: “They didn’t rename the country. They wrote around it until it disappeared.” I wrote that as a warning. I’d really like current events to stop treating Pejorative like a fucking checklist.

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Jason G. Butterfield @jasonbu.online via Bluesky

LOL. First it was “hegemons,” now it’s “hydronyms.” Damn, I love living in a country where our political discourse occasionally expects us to read above a Grade 5 level. 😂🇨🇦

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