An activist may be a super patriot unbeknown to the general public. Political Activism is a course undertaken by usually a handfull of very knowledgeable citizens who are concerned regarding an issue that the public refuses to address in its importance.
I have been involved in anti nuclear activism in regard to the siting of the largest nuclear waste dump in the U.S. near my former home, Trumansburg, in the Finger Lakes Region of N.Y.
Our efforts in 1979 prevented the poisoning of the water supply of the Region and saved the lives of several millions of residents and their land values, crops, herds and children's health . Of course my wife and I suffered immensely for our efforts of exposing the Cayuga Indian Land Settlement as a U.S. Government Dept. of Energy Fraud to obtain Connecticut Hill, N.Y. State Land for a Dump site
So, Activism does has only a heroic Context in this regard.
The industries attempting to get their waste buried would consider us better jailed than pejorative.
D.C. An activist may be a super patriot unbeknown to the general public. Political Activism is a course undertaken by usually a handfull of very knowledgeable citizens who are concerned regarding an issue that the public refuses to address in its importance.
I have been involved in anti nuclear activism in regard to the siting of the largest nuclear waste dump in the U.S. near my former home, Trumansburg, in the Finger Lakes Region of N.Y.
Our efforts in 1979 prevented the poisoning of the water supply of the Region and saved the lives of several millions of residents and their land values, crops, herds and children's health . Of course my wife and I suffered immensely for our efforts of exposing the Cayuga Indian Land Settlement as a U.S. Government Dept. of Energy Fraud to obtain Connecticut Hill, N.Y. State Land for a Dump site
So, Activism does have only a heroic Context in this regard.
The industries attempting to get their waste buried would consider us better jailed than pejorative.
D.C.
Pejorative prefixes and suffixes attach a negative meaning to a word. An example of a pejorative prefix is dis-: disinformation, disconnect, disloyal, and disagree.
It's a pejorative term, meaning "bitch."
A word or phrase is pejorative if it expresses contempt or disapproval about the thing or person described. Most pejorative expressions may also be used in a non-pejorative way, however, and (as with any implied meaning) determining the intent of the speaker is problematic.Although pejorative means the same thing as disparaging, the latter term may be applied to a look or gesture as well as to words and phrases.Sometimes a term may begin as a pejorative word and eventually grow to have a non-pejorative sense.
Pejorative :Pejorative sense was exactly what brought the word back into use in the mid-nineteenth century.
Squaw is considered a pejorative, meaning the female sexual organ.
Some words that have once been pejorative can have the meaning change when used in slang. The more you use a word, the less power that word has. Rappers for example, have taken the most commonly used pejorative word and made it a greeting to friends. Homosexuals have taken the "power" away from the word gay to mean Good As You.
An abelungu is a pejorative term for a group of white people, used as a pejorative term in South Africa.
It's not very sincere, given that pejorative gives a negative connotation, meaning contempt. In terms of practicality I would not recommend it; if you do not have anything nice to say or if you're not going to mean what you say, it wouldn't be smart to waste the oxygen to make somebody's day rotten.
The term "geek" was once considered pejorative but has since been reclaimed by many as a badge of honor.
It is not wise to be pejorative all the time, but it is better to be benign.
"I am what I am because of who we all are." (From a translation offered by Liberian peace activist Leymah Gbowee.)
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