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> the rest aren't credible sources. Besides your own personal beliefs as to who is biased and impartial, why? https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/e
by skinnymuch 3y ago
> the rest aren't credible sources.
Besides your own personal beliefs as to who is biased and impartial, why?
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/reactionary https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/react...
Page says:
"a person who is opposed to political or social change or new ideas:
Reactionaries are preventing reforms.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Custom, tradition & conformity
Americanization anti-classical anti-conventional anti-institutional anti-traditional conventionalized conventionally crowd custom demi-monde multicultural multiculturalism multiculturally non-classical non-conservative ultra-conservatism ultra-conservative ultra-traditional unconventional unconventionally"
> not to exclusively left wing change
The above speaks for itself.
> 3. More to the point: why are you responding on different threads?
My post included:
> I notice you're the same who mistakenly provided a simplified and thus incorrect definition of reactionary.
This isn't a good faith reading of my comment.
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Final entry. Don't take either of our words for it. If interested in where reactionary comes from, any one can read about pivotal incidents like the Thermidorian Reaction via two good books going over the history of The Terror:
https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-french-revolution-1789-1799-9780199244140 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-french-revolutio...
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/terror-in-the-french-revolution-9780230201811/ https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/terror-in-the-french-revolutio...