"Freedom" as currently used by the U.S. administration.
I also hate the way po-mo academics (used to be one) make up or alter words using parentheses, like (un)conscious, or hu(man)ism. It's kind of cool, but it gets annoying after a while.
It's not just the PC police who do this - in fact, the neocons are some of the most virulent perpetrators of this kind of linguistic hijacking. Check out the book Talking Right for examples.
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