Spin on 'freedom' --- Both the logo 'LGBT FREE zone' and the Magazine editor's comment "people congratulated us because we Poles love freedom" provide clear evidence of how we can use positively loaded words (such as 'freedom') to promote negative messages of discrimination and exclusion.

There is a whole story encapsulated in the concept of 'being free of something' and its implications and entailments should be called out by other editors, bloggers and influencers - by all of us.

Source author: Biljana Scott biscott@diplomacy.edu