It’s not just about promoting catchwords like the “death tax” — Republicans have also been fighting to suppress words deemed overly liberal–including “climate change.”

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Bisexual sustainable development activists working to prevent climate change-related sea-level rise better watch out: Just about all the preceding words have been flagged by conservatives and Republicans as liberal buzzwords that need to be stricken from public conversation, according to a spate of recent news stories.

Sure, it’s a time-honored GOP practice to seek to replace a perfectly good description, such as “the estate tax,” with a more inflammatory phrase, but the new fight against liberal words does not appear to be seeking to replace them with an alternative so much as to deny the existence of a thing. Three examples:

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