While defending the National Endowment of the Arts against the latest GOP broadside, Scott Eric Kaufman coins a new word:
*beck v. trans. beck-ing, beck-ed, to be baselessly attacked by an idiot with a megaphone, then have those accusations alter your life for the worse because it’s politically expedient for your spineless superiors to demote or fire you
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