By Constance Alexander

NKyTribune contributor

Just goes to show, if condemning use of certain words over and over and over — while threatening financial ruin, public humiliation, and physical threat to those who say them — you can successfully change the nation’s vocabulary in less than a hundred days.

A case in point is D.E.I., short for diversity, equity, and inclusion. The individual words and even the acronym are verboten in America now. President Donald Trump saw to that in the first week of his second presidency. Through a series of executive orders, diversity, equity, and inclusion were flushed into obscurity.

The war on words and ideas did not stop there. Just the other day, the president accused the Smithsonian Institution of focusing too much on “how bad slavery was” and not

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