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To assume, though, as do Kutchins, Kirk, and many other left-oriented critics, that psychiatry is an inherently sinister enterprise, and that diagnosis--labeling people--is mean, is to ignore many of the ways psychiatry is used.
While it's undeniably true that Jar Jar Binks is reminiscent of Stepin Fetchit, and those two noseless Federation guys are sinister Asians of the type not seen since World War II movies, I take issue with the implication that this is harmful.
My favorite Cornwellian clunker is a cheap bid for sinister atmosphere, the Scary Noun.
Indeed, Mr. Mason's call to purify English of Germanic influences reminds one of the French hysteria over “Franglais,” or of the more sinister years in this century when a “Telefon” become a “Fernsprecher,” a “Radio” become a “Rundfunk,” and so ordinary a personage as Mama became a Fricka-like “Mutti.”
He's a left-hander who puts the sinister back in "sinistral."