scissor statement

短语

发音

US

词形变化

scissor statements 复数 scissor statements

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A polarising and incendiary topic, opinion or phrase.

    The Ground Zero mosque was a scissor statement that divided Americans.

词源

Coined by American psychiatrist and blogger Scott Alexander Siskind (writing as "Scott Alexander") in his 2018 short story “Sort By Controversial”, where he wrote: “In some dead language, scissor shares a root with schism. A scissor is a schism-er, a schism-creator.”

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