CREDIT: Screenshot/YouTube/NBC There’s rarely a good reason to use the word “controversial,” a slippery term that implies outrage without attributing the outrage to anyone or anything. Yet in the backlash to a sketch from this week’s Chris Rock-hoted Saturday Night Live , in which hopeful entrepreneurs pitch ISIS to the judges of Shark Tank , the word keeps popping up. Mashable calls the sketch “ controversial .” CNN says Rock delivered on his “ reputation for controversy .” People deemed the sketch “ shocking ,” a first cousin of “controversial” that also signifies nothing. Watch it for yourself: The...
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