The Latest Word in Webster's

Funny, I've been really noticing how the term "radicalized" has become the new addition to Webster's and is the fashionable way of talking about terrorists and their proclivity to commit carnage. Well, being a guy that has always been interested in words, especially the ones that seem somehow to magically appear by Pravda Linguistics I wonder could it be a way to take the heat off of an ideology and make it appear that even Norwegian grandmothers, Polish farmers, Swedish Lutheran landowners, your next door Baptist neighbors can just as easily be "radicalized" and thus there is no reason at all to be a radicalizedaphobe?