scissor statement

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A polarising and incendiary topic, opinion or phrase. Internet
    — The Ground Zero mosque was a scissor statement that divided Americans.

词形变化

scissor statements plural

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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