Lexicon category
Moral charges.
Words that close inquiry by naming a character rather than describing a conduct.
Racist.
The word names a real object—racial discrimination, prejudice, or hierarchy. It also gets used as a character charge that closes inquiry. The test is whether the speaker names the conduct, the unit, the population, and the interval, or substitutes a verdict for description.
Antisemitic.
The word names hatred or persecution of Jews. It also gets used as a substitute to close inquiry. The test is whether the speaker names the conduct, or substitutes a verdict. Criticism of a state's policy is not the same object as hatred of Jews.
Woke.
The word names alertness to racial and social justice. It also gets used as a present-tense character charge that ends description of a policy. The test is whether the speaker names the conduct and the mechanism, or substitutes a verdict for inquiry.
Groomer.
The word names child sexual exploitation—building trust with a child to abuse them. It also gets used as a character charge against teachers, libraries, or political opponents without naming that conduct, that child, or that interval. The test is whether the speaker can produce the mechanism.