conflation

And the successful conflation of “Palestinian” with “terrorist” was all it took for some Americans to embrace Donald Trump’s suggestion that Gaza should be cleared of its people and turned into the “Riviera of the Middle East” for Israelis, Americans, and foreign tourists.

We ended up with 31,000 noncitizens of Japanese, German, and Italian descent who were put into camps based principally on their ancestry or the conflation of their ethnicity with disloyalty and dangerousness.

Could there be a more emphatic conflation of symbolic maleness and brute force?

You wouldn’t know it, given the casual media conflation of prescription fentanyl with the unregulated, often contaminated, unknown-dose illicit version, but opioid prescription rates in the U.S. have plummeted to levels not seen since Kurt Cobain was alive.

“This inaccurate conflation of pro-Palestine advocacy with antisemitism sets a scary precedent of censorship for the student community where only certain students are able to participate in free speech,” the letter said.