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Meeting in the middle means shifting the goal posts until we're all knee deep in right wing bullshit
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Hi! I am your opposite. I hate when people mangle meaning of words with no reason altogether. Create new ones all you want, I am all behind it. But leave the old ones be and use them correctly.
Constant meddling, changing and pushing around of words makes them useless in communication and, in case of words having a weight attached to them, makes them hollow. It's one thing to use custom meaning in your circle, another altogether to try to force it upon the world - in a way, becoming what you hate, someone forcing their definition.
For example, overuse of the word "Nazi" pretty much made it worthless. Today if people get called nazi...nobody cares. Word got overused, it's meaning thinned.
What I hate about MAGA tho is that we create new words for new phenomena like transsexual and they behave as if it wasn't valid. It's not words they protect - they protect their worldview and frame it as defending language.
Gonna dig my grave but I do consider female and transfemale different. But especially if they had surgery they are both women. We never specified women fully, did we? Traditionally it's just a person with tits and vagina. And I hate mental gymnastics MAGA go to to try and exclude people who literally went through invasive medical procedure to fit into what their brain deemed always natural. This is defending meaning of words vs. defending your worldview and framing it as defending words.
Also I may be autistic cuz I cling to rules too much xD
Disagree that Nazi lost meaning. It is very accurate when describing today's "conservative" Americans. The term "conservative" isn't even remotely as accurate as Nazi is.
You're speaking a language made of words that have been mangled and mutated with no rhyme or reason, with significantly less logic behind it than other languages.
Or does it just mean that Nazis are everywhere, and it's more important than ever to call it out?
Most Nazis were not Hermann Göring, they were surprisingly normal people who enabled atrocities to happen. That's the part people need to recognize.
Yeah, but we are, at least should be, better than our ancestors at making it sensible. We can expand vocab for new words, we don't need to destroy the meaning behind already existing ones.